ChromeDrive on Solaris (Joyent's SmartOS)

Question

I have a NodeJs app and I'm trying to use Selenium on SmartOS which is based on Solaris. In order to proceede I've installed selenium-webdriver (from NPM), but the package requires ChromeDriver. When I try to install the ChromeDriver I get:

Unexpected platform or architecture: sunos ia32 npm ERR! weird error 1 npm ERR! not ok code 0

I tried getting it from here as well: http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html but I'm also running into problems.

Any ideas? All I want to do is use Selenium through my NodeJs app running on SmartOS.

Answer 1

Looking at the home page https://npmjs.org/package/selenium-webdriver it says it

In addition to the npm package, you will to download the WebDriver implementations you wish to utilize. As of 2.34.0, selenium-webdriver natively supports the ChromeDriver. Simply download a copy and make sure it can be found on your PATH. The other drivers (e.g. Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari), still require the standalone Selenium server.

So if you can't get or compile a copy of the chromeDriver, maybe you can use a version from before 2.34.0. As it says, I suspect you will also need to download and install the Selenium Server as well

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Alternatively the https://npmjs.org/package/selenium-node-webdriver might work better as it uses phantomjs which is a headless webdriver

This module provides a simple wrapper around the Node.js WebDriver implementation that ships with Selenium.

Prerequisites

Node.js

PhantomJS 1.8+

EDIT

This thread here talks about installing phantomjs on smartOS/Solaris https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/issues/10521