I created an application that use Selenium using .NetCore for use on Linux. This is my code implementation:
public class Program
{
public static async Task Main(string[] args)
{
//Settings for chrome
var chromeOpts = new ChromeOptions();
chromeOpts.AddArgument("headless");
chromeOpts.AddArgument("no-sandbox");
//Get assembly path where chrome driver is located
string codeBase = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().CodeBase;
UriBuilder uri = new UriBuilder(codeBase);
string path = Uri.UnescapeDataString(uri.Path);
path = Path.GetDirectoryName(path);
var driver = new ChromeDriver(path, chromeOpts, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(180));
}
}
As you can see, I am using as driver Chrome. I downloaded it here. I also added the driver inside the folder of the assembly. In this way the ChromeDriver knows already where to find it.
On Linux I changed the folder permission using chmod -R 777 but, when I run my Dotnet application, I get this:
Seems that Selenium cannot start the application. Looking at the Exception I get:
Cannot find Chrome binary
Unfortunately I didn't find anything similar on the web.
UPDATE
I reinstalled Chrome on my Linux machine and now the error above went away, but there is another problem now. I get this error:
OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally (Driver info: chromedriver=2.9.248304,platform=Linux 4.4.0-130-generic x86_64)
at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver.UnpackAndThrowOnError(Response errorResponse)
at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver.Execute(String driverCommandToExecute, Dictionary`2 parameters)
at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver.StartSession(ICapabilities desiredCapabilities)
at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver..ctor(ICommandExecutor commandExecutor, ICapabilities desiredCapabilities)
at OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome.ChromeDriver..ctor(ChromeDriverService service, ChromeOptions options, TimeSpan commandTimeout)
at OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome.ChromeDriver..ctor(String chromeDriverDirectory, ChromeOptions options, TimeSpan commandTimeout)\ at ODS.Program.Main(String[] args)
