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

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