Appium Automatic Server - No Chromedriver found that can automate Chrome '68.0.3440'

Question

I'm trying to connect a physical Android device to Appium Automatic Server. The capabilities are:

{
  "platformName": "Android",
  "platformVersion": "8.1.0",
  "deviceName": "Oreo",
  "browserName": "Chrome"
}

When I click "Start Session" it says

An unknown server-side error occurred while processing the command. Original error: No Chromedriver found that can automate Chrome '68.0.3440'. See https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/master/docs/en/writing-running-appium/web/chromedriver.md for more details.

Going to https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/master/docs/en/writing-running-appium/web/chromedriver.md it says I need version 2.4.2. I tried installing it with npm install -g appium-chromedriver --chromedriver_version="2.42", is this not the right command?

I also tried downloading the zip here https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=2.42/ and running it to no avail.

Answer 1

Try the below commands if you are turning on Appium server from command prompt.

npm install appium --chromedriver_version="2.42"

or 

CHROMEDRIVER_VERSION=2.42 npm install appium

If you are turning on appium server from Appium desktop app.

Provide the path of the chromedriver binary in the highlighted field.