Public bug reported:
The webdriver for Chrome/Chromium requires the user to download, build
and install a separate executable called 'chromedriver', which is not
available anywhere in the repositories.
This is only mentioned at run-time by an exception message:
$ python
Python 2.7.3 (default, Apr 10 2013, 06:20:15)
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from selenium import webdriver
>>> driver = webdriver.Chrome()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File
"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py",
line 59, in __init__
self.service.start()
File
"/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/chrome/service.py",
line 68, in start
and read up at http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver";)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'ChromeDriver
executable needs to be available in the path. Please download
from http://code.google.com/p/selenium/downloads/list and read
up at http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/ChromeDriver'
>>>
It can also be found if you dig inside the source code:
$ grep -nrC1 'chromedriver' py
py/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py-31- You will need to download the
ChromeDriver executable from
py/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py:32:
http://code.google.com/p/chromedriver/downloads/list
py/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py-33- """
py/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py-34-
py/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py:35: def __init__(self,
executable_path="chromedriver", port=0,
py/selenium/webdriver/chrome/webdriver.py-36-
chrome_options=None):
The mentioned URL provides only pre-compiled binaries. The source code for
'chromedriver' is ultimately found in Chromium source tree:
http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/test/chromedriver/
And, unfortunately, it's not build by default in 'chromium-browser'
package.
As a result, out-of-the-box the Chrome webdriver simply does not work in
Ubuntu, even if you have Chrome and/or Chromium installed.
Package description is very misleading when it says it supports Chrome
and fails to mention this download requirement anywhere in its
debian/README* files. If 'chromedriver' is not available in repositories
(hence no way to add it as package dependency), this should be clearly
stated in debian/control.
** Affects: python-selenium (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: python-selenium (Debian)
Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #700061
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=700061
** Also affects: python-selenium (Debian) via
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=700061
Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
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Chome webdriver requires downloading (and building/installing)
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