What to Do When 'geckodriver' Executable Needs to Be in PATH in Ubuntu's Selenium
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2017-02-03 00:40 (9 years ago)

Trying to run Selenium on Ubuntu from Python
Traceback (most recent call last):
... omitted ...
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 140, in __init__
self.service.start()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 81, in start
os.path.basename(self.path), self.start_error_message)
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'geckodriver' executable needs to be in PATH.
Exception AttributeError: "'Service' object has no attribute 'process'" in <bound method Service.__del__ of <selenium.webdriver.firefox.service.Service object at 0x7fd28405b350>> ignored
If that happens,
wget https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.14.0/geckodriver-v0.14.0-linux64.tar.gz
tar -zxvf geckodriver-v0.14.0-linux64.tar.gz
sudo mv geckodriver /usr/local/bin/
You can check the latest release here: https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases
By the way, the constructor of webdriver.Firefox is as follows:
def __init__(self, firefox_profile=None, firefox_binary=None,
timeout=30, capabilities=None, proxy=None,
executable_path="geckodriver", firefox_options=None,
log_path="geckodriver.log"):
"""Starts a new local session of Firefox.
So, it seems you can also specify the full path of geckodriver in the executable_path parameter.
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