Instructions for installing the most popular webdrivers, and then the latest version of the standalone Selenium server

selenium-instructions.md

Steps For Setting Up Selenium And The Webdrivers

Install The Firefox Geckodriver

• Download the latest Geckodriver for Firefox
• then mv that file to /usr/local/bin/geckodriver and sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/geckodriver
• make sure you have "webdriver.firefox.profile" : "geckodriver", in your nightwatch.json file if you are using it

Install The Chromedriver

• Download the latest version from the Chrome site
• unzip it if it is a zip file
• then mv that file to /usr/local/bin/chromedriver and sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/chromedriver

Install the Safari Driver

• Download the SafariDriver.safariextz from the release site
• Double click on the file and it will open in Safari
• Accept the file as trusted
• It will now show in your extensions

Build the latest Selenium binary

• git clone git@github.com:SeleniumHQ/selenium.git
• cd selenium
• ./go clean release
• cd build/dist
• You can now run the server with the following: java -jar selenium-server-standalone-3.0.0-beta1.jar
• you may have a server of a different name depending on when you read this tutorial

Running the server

• cd to the directory where you build the jar file
• run: java -jar selenium-server-standalone-3.0.0-beta1.jar

You can also alias the function in a ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc with:

alias selenium="java -jar /path/to/build/dist/folder/selenium-server-standalone-3.0.0-beta1.jar"

Remember: You may have a server of a different name depending on when you read this tutorial