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I am trying to start protractor on my local Windows development machine. In an attempt to do so, I am trying to start it from the command-line using the following command:
C:\myProject\node_modules\grunt-protractor-runner\node_modules\protractor\bin>webdriver-manager start
When that command is run, I get an error that says:
'webdriver-manager' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
I was confident this was correct though. I'm installing protractor via NPM. My package.json file looks like this:
{
"name": "MyProject",
"version": "0.0.1",
"description": "Just the description",
"repository": "N/A",
"readme":"N/A",
"private": true,
"scripts": {
"test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
},
"author": "",
"devDependencies": {
"grunt-contrib-clean": "~0.5.0",
"grunt-contrib-concat": "0.4.0",
"grunt-contrib-connect": "0.7.1",
"grunt-contrib-copy": "~0.4.1",
"grunt-contrib-cssmin": "~0.6.1",
"grunt-contrib-htmlmin": "~0.1.3",
"grunt-contrib-jshint": "0.9.2",
"grunt-contrib-uglify": "~0.2.4",
"grunt-contrib-watch": "0.5.x",
"grunt-protractor-runner": "0.2.4",
"grunt-start-webdriver":"0.0.2",
"phantomjs": "1.9.7-3",
"selenium-webdriver":"2.41.0",
"load-grunt-tasks": "0.2.x",
},
"license": "none"
}
What am I doing wrong? Why can't I get protractor to run? Thank you!
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To install and start the standalone Selenium Server manually, use the webdriver-manager command line tool, which comes with Protractor. Run the update command: webdriver-manager update This will install the server and ChromeDriver. Run the start command: webdriver-manager start This will start the server.
You will need to have the Java Development Kit (JDK) installed to run the standalone Selenium Server. Check this by running java -version from the command line.
Run sudo npm install -g protractor, and then start your webdriver server, last step do "sudo webdriver-manager update". Show activity on this post.
use grunt-protractor-webdriver, you also need protractor in your package.json if you don`t installed it as global ( -g) also look at grunt-protractor-runner it can start protractor from a grunt process without starting the selenium server ( webdriver-manager start )
It's an issue with chromedriver, chrome, the selenium standalone server or your local machine (corporate configuration). Can you try to do a clean install of protractor (do a git clone of protractor) and run the example -project and see what happens.
WebDriverManager has an automated way to download browser executables (exes) or binaries. It supports different browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Opera, or PhantomJS. Consider the following lines of code: WebDriverManager.chromedriver ().setup (); driver = new ChromeDriver ();
Install protractor globally.
npm install protractor -g
This will install protractor and webdriver-manager.
Then run from the command line: webdriver-manager update
Check for more info on: http://angular.github.io/protractor/#/tutorial
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webdriver-manager is actually a NodeJS script. Run it using
node webdriver-manager start
Try installing it globally as an Administrator:
npm install -g webdriver-manager
If you are a Windows user, this could help you:
Add C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\npm to the PATH variable.
Close cmd/powershell and open it again.
Try webdriver-manager
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