Selenium 2 Build - Ubuntu 9.10 - Python 2.6

build_test_install.txt

# Get recent updates
$ sudo apt-get update upgrade
$ sudo apt-get upgrade

# Install some decent tools :-)
$ sudo apt-get install vim ack-grep

# Install pre-reqs
$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk ruby rake subversion python-pip python2.6-dev
$ sudo pip install distribute py

# Create project space
mkdir Projects
$ cd Projects/
$ svn checkout https://selenium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ selenium --username <name>

# It's big, fyi
$ du -hs selenium/
313M	selenium/

# Can we build it? Yes we can!
$ cd selenium
$ rake

# Can we build the python bindings?
$ rake test_firefox_py



# Build an egg
$ build/python/bin/python setup.py bdist_egg

# Install the egg:
$ sudo easy_install dist/selenium-2.0_dev-py2.6.egg

# Start using it!
$ python
>>> import selenium
>>> from selenium.firefox.webdriver import WebDriver
>>> browser = WebDriver()
>>> browser.get('http://hello-internet.org')