Python - Selenium in Ubuntu OSError: [Errno 20] Not a directory

Question

After installing Selenium in Ubuntu and adding geckodriver to path I get this error when I run

from selenium import webdriver

driver = webdriver.Firefox()
         


        

Answer 1

In addition to the answer by @Poloq, the simplest way would be keeping your geckodriver binary in a directory which is already in your PATH.

mv geckodriver /usr/local/bin

This way you can avoid additional settings/configurations in your project with the downside of having an additional step when deploying on different systems.

Answer 2

In addition to the provided answers, there is also this option where you can copy the driver to /usr/bin:

sudo cp geckodriver /usr/bin 

Answer 3

Selenium is available from the default Ubuntu repositories in Ubuntu 16.04 and later. To install selenium open the terminal and type:

sudo apt install python-selenium # for Python 2.x

and/or

sudo apt install python3-selenium # for Python 3.x  

Then type python to start the Python interpreter and from selenium import webdriver should work like this:

$ python  
>>> from selenium import webdriver

Assuming that the path ~/.local/bin is in your execution PATH, here's how to install the Firefox webdriver, called geckodriver:

wget https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.20.1/geckodriver-v0.20.1-linux64.tar.gz
tar xvfz geckodriver-v0.20.1-linux64.tar.gz
mv geckodriver ~/.local/bin

source: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1041541/i-want-to-install-selenium-webdriver-in-my-ubuntu-16-04-system-for-python

Answer 4

Had the same problem. There were two ways to fix this for me:

Add executable_path arg in webdriver:

driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path='/path/to/geckodriver')

And the second way its to add folder that contains geckodriver using export (only folder, not geckodriver):

$ export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/

Answer 5

The problem is that you renamed "geckodriver" to "wires".

The solution is to add "geckodriver" to search path then it should work.