How To Install chromium-chromedriver on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install chromium-chromedriver on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is chromium-chromedriver
chromium-chromedriver is:
Chromedriver serves as a bridge between Chromium Browser and Selenium WebDriver.
See https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/ for details.
There are three methods to install chromium-chromedriver on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install chromium-chromedriver Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install chromium-chromedriver using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install chromium-chromedriver
Install chromium-chromedriver Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install chromium-chromedriver using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install chromium-chromedriver
Install chromium-chromedriver Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install chromium-chromedriver using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install chromium-chromedriver
How To Uninstall chromium-chromedriver on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the chromium-chromedriver package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove chromium-chromedriver
Uninstall chromium-chromedriver And Its Dependencies
To uninstall chromium-chromedriver and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove chromium-chromedriver
Remove chromium-chromedriver Configurations and Data
To remove chromium-chromedriver configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge chromium-chromedriver
Remove chromium-chromedriver configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove chromium-chromedriver configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge chromium-chromedriver
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install chromium-chromedriver package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
