Installation of Selenium in VS Code Using Ubuntu Terminal 22.04

Step 1: Installing Google Chrome

(• Commands)

1.1 First of all, download the latest Gooogle Chrome Debian package on your system.

• wget -nc https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

1.2 Now, execute the following commands to install Google Chrome from the locally downloaded file.

sudo apt update

sudo apt install -f ./google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

--> Press ‘y’ for all the confirmations asked by the installer.

Step 2: Installing Selenium and Webdriver for Python

We will use a virtual environment for running Python scripts. Follow the below steps to create

Python virtual environment and install the required python modules.

1.Create a directory to store Python scripts. Then switch to the newly-created directory.

• mkdir tests && cd tests

2. Set up the Python virtual environment and activate it

• python3 -m venv venv

• source venv/bin/activate

3. Now use PIP to install the selenium and webdriver-manager Python modules under the virtual environment.

• install selenium webdriver-manager

4. Change directory and create a file

• cd

• code . (VS code opens create a file with name) (Space is must between code and .)

• cd tests (Tests is sample file name enter your file name that is created in vs code)

• code . (after it get into the tests folder)

5. After the installation opening and running the vs code and running the program should be done in ubuntu 22.04

5.1 Code . : Is to open vs code

5.2 Python filename.py : is used to run the program