Install ChromeDriver and PhantomJS on Linux Mint

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Recently Updated - May 27, 2017. Note that Chrome now also supports headless mode.

A note on how to install ChromeDriver and PhantomJS on Linux Mint (Ubuntu), which would be handy for writing Selenium WebDriver tests to run against Chrome/PhantomJS directly without specifying paths in code.

Install ChromeDriver

  1. Install unzip

    sudo apt-get install unzip

  2. Download latest version from official website and upzip it (here for instance, verson 2.29 to ~/Downloads)

    wget -N http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.29/chromedriver_linux64.zip -P ~/Downloads
unzip ~/Downloads/chromedriver_linux64.zip -d ~/Downloads

  3. Move to /usr/local/share and make it executable

    sudo mv -f ~/Downloads/chromedriver /usr/local/share/
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/share/chromedriver

  4. Create symbolic links

    sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/chromedriver /usr/local/bin/chromedriver
sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/chromedriver /usr/bin/chromedriver

Install PhantomJS

  1. Download latest version from official website and extract it (here for instance, verson 2.1.1 to ~/Downloads)

    wget -N https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 -P ~/Downloads
tar xjf ~/Downloads/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 -C ~/Downloads

  2. Move the folder to /usr/local/share

    sudo mv -f ~/Downloads/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64 /usr/local/share/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64

  3. Create symbolic links

    sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64/bin/phantomjs /usr/local/bin/phantomjs
sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64/bin/phantomjs /usr/bin/phantomjs

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