How To Install chromedriver on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install chromedriver on Fedora 34.
What is chromedriver
WebDriver is an open source tool for automated testing of webapps across many browsers. It provides capabilities for navigating to web pages, user input, JavaScript execution, and more. ChromeDriver is a standalone server which implements WebDriver’s wire protocol for Chromium. It is being developed by members of the Chromium and WebDriver teams.
We can use yum or dnf to install chromedriver on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install chromedriver.
Install chromedriver on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install chromedriver using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install chromedriver
Install chromedriver on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install chromedriver using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install chromedriver
How To Uninstall chromedriver on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the chromedriver package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove chromedriver
chromedriver Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/chromedriver
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/24
/usr/lib/.build-id/24/39c30a6b23a0ccd5e512e7e310f959d8223027
/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/chromedriver
/usr/share/doc/chromedriver
/usr/share/doc/chromedriver/AUTHORS
/usr/share/licenses/chromedriver
/usr/share/licenses/chromedriver/LICENSE
/usr/bin/chromedriver
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b0
/usr/lib/.build-id/b0/91be250ea474800b57d95045ec908857f9798e
/usr/lib64/chromium-browser/chromedriver
/usr/share/doc/chromedriver
/usr/share/doc/chromedriver/AUTHORS
/usr/share/licenses/chromedriver
/usr/share/licenses/chromedriver/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install chromedriver on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.