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Download Mozilla GeckoDriver on Ubuntu

Ubuntu

Overview

In this tutorial, we will learn steps involved to Download Mozilla GeckoDriver on Ubuntu Linux distribution. New releases of Selenium would be hosted on GitHub. We can download the GeckoDriver from GitHub repository.

Environment

  • Ubuntu Linux Distribution.
  • Mozilla Firefox Web Browser

Download GeckoDriver

Navigate to GitHub repository URL in your browser.

https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/

Under Downloads section click on the Releases link. We can choose different releases on this page. Choose the Latest version and pick either 32-bit or 64-bit download tar file according to your machine type.

 

Gecko Download GitHub

 

To know your machine architecture, launch Terminal and issue the following system bash command:

$ uname -i

Check your machine architecture and download the tar file. The following machine is 64-bit architecture.

 

System Architecture

Pick the latest version and Download the tar file.

For 32 bit machine:  geckodriver-<version>-linux32.tar.gz 

For 64-bit architecture: geckodriver-<version>-linux64.tar.gz

Extract the Contents

We need to extract the contents of the tar file.

Launch the Terminal window and change working directory to the path where the tar was downloaded.

Issue the following tar command.

$ tar -xvf  geckodriver-<version>-linux64.tar.gz

 

tar geckodriver Extract Ubuntu

List the directory contents to check the extraction.

That’s it. We can copy the geckodriver file to the Project folder or to the drivers directory.

Related

Download Google Chrome Driver on Ubuntu Linux

https://www.testingdocs.com/download-google-chromedriver-on-ubuntu/

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Selenium WebDriver Tutorials on this website can be found at:

https://www.testingdocs.com/selenium-webdriver-tutorial

For more details on the Selenium, visit the official website at:

https://www.selenium.dev/

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