Setup Selenium Server on Ubuntu 14.04

setup_selenium.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Following the guide found at this page
# http://programmingarehard.com/2014/03/17/behat-and-selenium-in-vagrant.html

echo "\r\nUpdating system ...\r\n"
sudo apt-get update


# Create folder to place selenium in
#
echo "\r\nCreating folder to place selenium in ...\r\n"
sudo mkdir ~/selenium
cd ~/selenium


# Get Selenium and install headless Java runtime
#
echo "\r\nInstalling Selenium and headless Java runtime ...\r\n"
sudo wget https://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/3.6/selenium-server-standalone-3.6.0.jar
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre-headless -y

# Add Java 8
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:webupd8team/java -y
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

# Install Firefox
#
echo "\r\nInstalling Firefox ...\r\n"
sudo apt-get install firefox -y


# Install headless GUI for firefox.  'Xvfb is a display server that performs graphical operations in memory'
#
echo "\r\nInstalling XVFB (headless GUI for Firefox) ...\r\n"
sudo apt-get install xvfb -y

wget https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.19.1/geckodriver-v0.19.1-linux64.tar.gz
sudo mv geckodriver-v0.19.1-linux64.tar.gz /usr/local/bin
sudo tar xvzf /usr/local/bin/geckodriver-v0.19.1-linux64.tar.gz


# Finally, starting up Selenium server
#
echo "\r\nStarting up Selenium server ...\r\n"
DISPLAY=:1 xvfb-run java -jar ~/selenium/selenium-server-standalone-3.6.0.jar

Bumped Selenium to latest 3.6.0
Added Java8 via unofficial Ubuntu 14.04 Repo
Added Gecko Driver install (untested)

Should now run without intervention