Install Chrome Driver with Xvfb (Ubuntu Server)

ba.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Chrome Repo
sudo apt-get install fonts-liberation xdg-utils libxss1 libappindicator1 libindicator7
wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i google-chrome*.deb

sudo apt-get update

# Download
wget https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.22/chromedriver_linux64.zip

#Extract
unzip chromedriver_linux64.zip

# Deploy + Permissions
sudo cp ./chromedriver /usr/bin/
sudo chmod ugo+rx /usr/bin/chromedriver

# Install Google Chrome:
sudo apt-get -y install libxpm4 libxrender1 libgtk2.0-0 libnss3 libgconf-2-4

# Dependencies to make "headless" chrome/selenium work:
sudo apt-get -y install xorg xvfb gtk2-engines-pixbuf
sudo apt-get -y install dbus-x11 xfonts-base xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-cyrillic xfonts-scalable

# Optional but nifty: For capturing screenshots of Xvfb display:
sudo apt-get -y install imagemagick x11-apps

# Make sure that Xvfb starts everytime the box/vm is booted:
echo "Starting X virtual framebuffer (Xvfb) in background..."
Xvfb -ac :99 -screen 0 1280x1024x16 &
export DISPLAY=:99


# Optionally, capture screenshots using the command:
#xwd -root -display :99 | convert xwd:- screenshot.png

Failure/Error: Timeout.timeout(60, &example)
          Selenium::WebDriver::Error::UnknownError:
            unknown error: Chrome failed to start: crashed
              (Driver info: chromedriver=2.31.488763 (092de99f48a300323ecf8c2a4e2e7cab51de5ba8),platform=Linux 4.10.0-32-generic x86_64)

any ideas?

Thank you! This managed to get my script up and running on an Ubuntu Server running on an AWS EC2 instance.

For anybody seeing this in 2018, just replace the chromedriver link with a link to the latest version of chromedriver. As of the time of writing, that is:
wget https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.38/chromedriver_linux64.zip

You may face some dependency issues when trying to dpkg chrome, but just read the error message, it'll contain the command you need to run to install the required packages. I believe that's:
sudo apt-get install -f

Also you'll need to get unzip for the 14th line to work:
sudo apt-get install unzip

Failing with 2.38 driver as well:

WebDriverException: Message: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally
  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.38.552522 (437e6fbedfa8762dec75e2c5b3ddb86763dc9dcb),platform=Linux 4.4.0-116-generic x86_64)

@radinsky, this error generally arises when google chrome can't start because it's tried to be run as root.
Try adding --no-sandbox option.

Thank you! This managed to get my script up and running on an Ubuntu Server running on an AWS EC2 instance.

For anybody seeing this in 2018, just replace the chromedriver link with a link to the latest version of chromedriver. As of the time of writing, that is:
wget https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.38/chromedriver_linux64.zip

You may face some dependency issues when trying to dpkg chrome, but just read the error message, it'll contain the command you need to run to install the required packages. I believe that's:
sudo apt-get install -f

Also you'll need to get unzip for the 14th line to work:
sudo apt-get install unzip

Where you able to watch the chrome tests tests live using VNC? I am struggling to get this done. Any help would be appreciated.