Krdytkyu

Using Java for Selenium, and am curious about the firefoxdriver package. There are several python specific packages, but does firefoxdriver perhaps install the geckodriver to the system in a way which is easy for a Java based Selenium project to find?

I've been using a properties file:

<!DOCTYPE properties SYSTEM "http://java.sun.com/dtd/properties.dtd">

<properties>

    <comment>selenium config and vehicle type</comment>

    <entry key="gecko">/home/thufir/.gecko/geckodriver</entry>

    <entry key="url">http://books.toscrape.com/</entry>

    <entry key="driver">webdriver.gecko.driver</entry>

    <entry key="usr">admin</entry>

    <entry key="pwd">12345</entry>

    <entry key="option01">--headless</entry>

</properties>

Which would be slightly less fragile if it point to some standard place on the system. (I suppose it's probably possible to bundle it in the JAR, also.)

thufir@dur:~$ 

thufir@dur:~$ sudo apt install firefoxdriver

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

firefoxdriver is already the newest version (3.8.0-1).

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 98 not upgraded.

thufir@dur:~$ 

Not exactly sure where the geckodriver file is, but it might be in there somewhere:

thufir@dur:~$ 

thufir@dur:~$ cat /usr/share/doc/firefoxdriver/README.Debian 

selenium-firefoxdriver for Debian

------------------------



This package contains the prebuilded shared objects for x386 and amd64 to

use firefox webdriver with e.g. python-selenium. Some of the shared objects

are packed inside the webdriver.xpi. The python bindings, which this package

is for, requires the path of all .so and select/copy them files by themself. 



The source for selenium-firefoxdriver is the same like the python-bindings but we filter out all other stuff except the webdriver.xpi.



 -- Sascha Girrulat <sascha@girrulat.de>  Sat, 22 Aug 2015 11:43:04 +0200

thufir@dur:~$ 

thufir@dur:~$ dpkg -L firefoxdriver

/.

/usr

/usr/lib

/usr/lib/firefoxdriver

/usr/lib/firefoxdriver/amd64

/usr/lib/firefoxdriver/amd64/x_ignore_nofocus.so

/usr/lib/firefoxdriver/webdriver.xpi

/usr/lib/firefoxdriver/x86

/usr/lib/firefoxdriver/x86/x_ignore_nofocus.so

/usr/share

/usr/share/doc

/usr/share/doc/firefoxdriver

/usr/share/doc/firefoxdriver/README.Debian

/usr/share/doc/firefoxdriver/README.rst.gz

/usr/share/doc/firefoxdriver/changelog.Debian.gz

/usr/share/doc/firefoxdriver/copyright

/usr/share/lintian

/usr/share/lintian/overrides

/usr/share/lintian/overrides/firefoxdriver

thufir@dur:~$ 

Better answer appreciated. There's an xpi file, which looks to be an installer for firefox(?) which might have the geckodriver compressed.