Now, you can run selenium server as you will run in your local machine. The command should keep running until you kill the process by pressing ctrl+ C or similar. If there was no error on the terminal, then you have successfully running firefox headlessly in Ubuntu. For this example, we will assume a display, 5. The parameter -ac makes xvfb run with access control off. Lets run the xvfb service in a display number which is less likely to clash even if you add a display at later stage.

This service is required to make browsers run normally by making them believe there is a display available.

Sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install firefoxĢ – Install Xvfb – the X Virtual FrameBuffer. This piece of software emulates the framebuffer using virtual memory which lets you run X-Server in machines with no display devices. Note that Ubuntu 20.04 comes with Python 3.

Open the terminal and run the commands: Java - Even though we are use Python you will still need the JDK ( or at least the JRE ) installed and on your path.

Open the file: /etc/apt/sources.list and add the line:.

Verify if you have the last version of Firefox. If you want run your tests with Selenium without open the browser Firefox, I will write how you can do this:

Install selenium in ubuntu