How to install protractor and start it?

Question

I followed instructions in the document on how to install protractor and selenium and I am unable to start.

install -g protractor

webdriver-manager update

After that I tried

webdriver-manager start and I got an error

events.jst:72
throw er; // Unhandeled 'error event
Error: spawn ENOENT
at errnoException (child_projcess.js:980:11)
at Process.ChildProcess.handle.onexeit (childprocess.js:771:34)

If I do webdriver-manager status I get this

selenium standalone is up to date
chromedriver is up to date
IEDriver is not present

What is going on?

Answer 1

Looks like you are running on the mac platform.

Installing it globally as you are doing, installs it to the system's node_module folder. You should try and install it locally for the project as its a project dependency.

so run: npm install protractor

Answer 2

Kind of old, but what solved it for me was to install java:

In an Ubuntu system:

sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre

In Fedora:

sudo yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk

Keep hacking!