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 http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/2.44/selenium-server-standalone-2.44.0.jar
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre-headless -y


# 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


# Finally, starting up Selenium server
#
echo "\r\nStarting up Selenium server ...\r\n"
DISPLAY=:1 xvfb-run java -jar ~/selenium/selenium-server-standalone-2.44.0.jar

Thanks this is helpful

Unable to access jarfile /home/sachin/selenium/selenium-server-standalone-2.44.0.jar

@hisachin I think your problem comes from Java installation. Make sure you installed the new version of Java, add it in the path and put it in the same place as selenium driver.

Hope that this will help you.
Mkinf.

Please, Update this code with the latest versions :) and Thanks for your effort

@islamTaha12 replace these line
sudo wget http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/2.44/selenium-server-standalone-2.44.0.jar

with this line:
sudo wget http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/2.53/selenium-server-standalone-2.53.1..jar

and you are ready to go!

Hi @curtismcmullan
Can you help me starting selenium server on startup? It would be a great help for many. Thanks for detailed commands for installing selenium.

Thanks,
Rutvij

How chrome worked headless ?

Thanks a lot, it really helped.

Is it also possible to run xvfb-run in the background? I tried DISPLAY=:1 xvfb-run java -jar ~/selenium/selenium-server-standalone-2.44.0.jar &.

Link for the last version (check my post date) https://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/3.14/selenium-server-standalone-3.14.0.jar