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Selenium on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy)
Published on 2008.06.11 at 05:51:52
Tags: Selenium, Ubuntu, Firefox
After upgrading Ubuntu to 8.04 (Upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy on Compaq (HP) nc6400. ) I sadly noticed that
Selenium stopped working.
As I found out it is because Selenium currently does not support
Firedfox 3 and Ubuntu comes with
Firefox 3 Beta 5.
After some search I found this blog entry on
having both Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 on the same machine which
was encouraging but in the end I it is not needed.
I installed Firefox 2 - in addition to Firefox 3 by typing
sudo aptitude install firefox-2
I created a new profile and played with that part but in the end I removed it
as it is not really needed.
What I had to do is to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable before
launching the Selenium-RC. So I have a shell script:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/firefox:/usr/lib/firefox/plugins
selenium-rc
I also change the browse definition in the test script to point
to the full path of the firefox-2 binaries.
my $sel = WWW::Selenium->new(
host => "localhost",
port => 4444,
browser => "*chrome /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-2-bin",
browser_url => "http://localhost",
);
That's all folks.
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