Installing Selenium on Laravel Homestead

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Install Selenium and PhantomJS on Laravel Homestead

All commands are in the terminal.

1. SSH into the Homestead Box - vagrant ssh from homestead directory
2. Create a new folder for Selenium - mkdir selenium from the ~ directory
3. Navigate to that folder - cd selenium
4. Get Selenium - wget http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/2.45/selenium-server-standalone-2.45.0.jar *Note: This link comes from copying the link on http://docs.seleniumhq.org/download/
5. Install Java - sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre-headless
6. Run Selenium - java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.45.0.jar

Hi - I am trying to do this but found that openjdk-7 has been made obselete

http://askubuntu.com/questions/761127/how-do-i-install-openjdk-7-on-ubuntu-16-04-or-higher

I am trying version 8 instead.

Install selenium on Homestead vagrant box
All commands are in the terminal.

Start vagrant box: vagrant up
SSH into the Homestead Box: vagrant ssh from homestead directory
Create a new folder for Selenium: mkdir selenium from the ~ directory
Navigate to that folder: cd selenium
Get Selenium: wget http://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/3.141/selenium-server-standalone-3.141.59.jar Note: This link comes from copying the link on http://docs.seleniumhq.org/download/
Install Java: sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre-headless
Run Selenium: java -jar selenium-server-standalone-3.11.0.jar