- First you need X11. If you have an older version of Mac OS X then X11 should already be installed.
- If you are running Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) or newer, then you can download X11 here: http://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/
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Headless Selenium on CentOS 6.3 (Mac XWindows / X11 / Xvfb / Headless Firefox / Selenium howto)
Seems to me like it's just installing the prerequisites for the virtual frame buffer (Xvfb), which itself is headless.
what's the point installing whole graphical environment and then run headless? all these packages are not needed for xvfb
The command sudo yum -y groupinstall "X Window System" "Desktop" "Fonts" "General Purpose Desktop" doesn't appear to be necessary to get selenium-server to work. In fact, all it did was make my development VM unbootable.
Other than that, this was very helpful. Just skip step 2 when setting up the CentOS box and all is good.
Tried to follow the procedures but step 2 gotta error.
$ sudo yum -y groupinstall "X Window System" "Desktop" "Fonts" "Geberal Purpose Desktop"
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.i3d.net
* epel: mirrors.coreix.net
* extras: mirror.i3d.net
* updates: mirror.i3d.net
- Warning: Group basic-desktop does not have any packages to install.
- Warning: group Geberal Purpose Desktop does not exist.
- Maybe run: yum groups mark install (see man yum)
- No packages in any requested group available to install or update@shssoichiro tried to proceed further but there is another error on accessing selenium.jar.
[root@scibrokes ~]# yum groups mark install "X Window System" "Desktop" "Fonts" "Geberal Purpose Desktop"
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
Determining fastest mirrors
* base: mirror.i3d.net
* epel: mirrors.coreix.net
* extras: mirror.i3d.net
* updates: mirror.i3d.net
Marked install: X Window System,Desktop,Fonts,Geberal Purpose Desktop
[root@scibrokes ~]# Xvfb :99 -ac -screen 0 1280x104x24 &
[1] 4560
[root@scibrokes ~]# Initializing built-in extension Generic Event Extension
Initializing built-in extension SHAPE
Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
Initializing built-in extension XTEST
Initializing built-in extension BIG-REQUESTS
Initializing built-in extension SYNC
Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
Initializing built-in extension XC-MISC
Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
Initializing built-in extension XFIXES
Initializing built-in extension RENDER
Initializing built-in extension RANDR
Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE
Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE
Initializing built-in extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
Initializing built-in extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
Initializing built-in extension RECORD
Initializing built-in extension DPMS
Initializing built-in extension Present
Initializing built-in extension X-Resource
Initializing built-in extension XVideo
Initializing built-in extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
Initializing built-in extension SELinux
Initializing built-in extension GLX
[root@scibrokes ~]# export DISPLAY=:99
[root@scibrokes ~]# java -jar /opt/selenium-server-standalone.jar &
[2] 4616
- [root@scibrokes ~]# Error: Unable to access jarfile /opt/selenium-server-standalone.jarHere is another error during install seleniuim http://www.thelinuxdaily.com/2011/07/how-to-install-and-use-selenium-server-in-linux/#comment-44118
Hi - I followed these instructions above, but ran into an issue with Firefox not working due to some library mismatches in RHEL 7.1. After trying several things to no avail, I uninstalled the default firefox package (yum delete firefox) and installed specifically the .i686 package (yum install firefox.i686). Which I know seems counterintuitive, since RHEL is running on the x86_64 architecture, but for some reason, this did it for me.
Just letting other people know this might work, since I spent a good few days dabbling "in the dark".
I skip the step 2 as @shssoichiro suggested, It works fine! Thank you, both!
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How is that headless? You install the whole graphical environment!