Chrome, Chromedriver, CentOS6 #fail

chromedriver_centos6_fail.md

OS:

CentOS6

Output of uname -a:

$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Mar 13 00:26:49 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Chrome version:

26.0.1410.63

Downloaded chromedriver from here:

https://code.google.com/p/chromedriver/downloads/detail?name=chromedriver_linux64_2.3.zip&can=2&q=

Test output:

unable to connect to chromedriver http://127.0.0.1:9515 (Selenium::WebDriver::Error::WebDriverError)

Shell output when running chromedriver:

$ chromedriver 
chromedriver: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by chromedriver)
chromedriver: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found (required by chromedriver)
chromedriver: /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.15' not found (required by chromedriver)

Seemingly relevant links:

• https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/chromium-discuss/I_ZFDJqdiyA
• https://code.google.com/p/chromedriver/issues/detail?id=361
• teamcapybara/capybara#1128
• http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Chrome-stops-declaring-Linux-systems-obsolete-1803451.html

Seems my version of chrome is way out of date - doesn't autoupdate as it does on mac/win platform...

Seems versions of chrome past v26 are not supported by CentOS due to dependencies on various versions of GTK and glibc. Moving on to Fedora...