Selenium gives “unknown error: cannot find Chrome binary” when running chrome driver on Ubuntu

Question

I am trying to run selenium [java] tests using chrome driver on Latest ubuntu.[16.04]

I am getting the following error/exception. As an experiment, I replaced Chrome

Answer 1

You may install Chrome through NPM:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/chromium

npm install chromium

Then, map your chrome binary:

const chromium = require('chromium');

capabilities: [
    {
        browserName: 'chrome',
        'goog:chromeOptions': {
            binary: chromium.path
        },
    },
],