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It took a look at this and it might be two separate issues for each of the drivers. The firefox driver seems to have only been packaged recently (see https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/selenium-firefoxdriver or the publishing history) and is only available in 16.10 and newer. It should be possible to request a backport of this to 16.04, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports for details on this. Chromdriver seems to be another story. In Debian, it is built as a transitional package for chromium-driver, but in Ubuntu the package only offers chromium-chromedriver. Compare the list of binaries on https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/chromium-browser with the ones listed on https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser. This might be another small difference since chromium is packaged directly in Ubuntu separate from Debian, but I don't know if there is a reason for the driver package names to differ. I've taken the liberty to mark this issue as also affecting chromium-browser for this part. ** Changed in: python-selenium (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Tags added: xenial ** Also affects: chromium-browser (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags added: artful yakkety zesty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1685037 Title: In 16.04 the package suggests vital, but non-existent packages chromedriver and firefoxdriver Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: New Status in python-selenium package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: In Xenial this package suggests two other packgages: chromedriver and firefoxdriver. These packgages are not available in Xenial. Only Chromium-chromedriver is. Unfortunately, python-selenium does not provide webdrivers, so they have to be installed separately. Why aren’t they available? This greatly hampers the usefulness of python-selenium. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1685037/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
