I'm trying to run Selenium on my Raspberry Pi 2 Model B but I'm having trouble finding a compatible combination of versions of Selenium, Firefox, and geckodriver.
(I've already run sudo apt-get update, upgrade and dist-upgrade.)
Using "old" Selenium like 2.53.1 (pip3 install selenium==2.53.1) produces the "can't load the profile" error:
$ uname -a ; firefox --version ; python3 --version ; python3 -c "import selenium ; print(\"Selenium: \" + selenium.__version__)" ; xvfb-run python3 -c "from selenium import webdriver ; browser = webdriver.Firefox()" Linux raspberrypi 4.1.19+ #858 Tue Mar 15 15:52:03 GMT 2016 armv6l GNU/Linux Mozilla Firefox 45.9.0 Python 3.2.3 Selenium: 2.53.1 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "/home/pi/.virtualenv/python3.2.3/lib/python3.2/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 103, in __init__ self.binary, timeout) File "/home/pi/.virtualenv/python3.2.3/lib/python3.2/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/extension_connection.py", line 51, in __init__ self.binary.launch_browser(self.profile, timeout=timeout) File "/home/pi/.virtualenv/python3.2.3/lib/python3.2/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/firefox_binary.py", line 68, in launch_browser self._wait_until_connectable(timeout=timeout) File "/home/pi/.virtualenv/python3.2.3/lib/python3.2/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/firefox_binary.py", line 106, in _wait_until_connectable % (self.profile.path)) selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: Can't load the profile. Profile Dir: /tmp/tmpv2bdep If you specified a log_file in the FirefoxBinary constructor, check it for details.
(Note: Increasing the timeout in firefox_binary.py as described here didn't change the error.)
The standard response to this error is to use a modern version of Selenium. However:
Using "new" Selenium like 3.7 (pip3 install --upgrade selenium) requires geckodriver, which requires Firefox 55+, but my package manager only provides Firefox 45:
$ apt-cache policy firefox-esr firefox-esr: Installed: 45.9.0esr-1~deb7u1 Candidate: 45.9.0esr-1~deb7u1 Version table: *** 45.9.0esr-1~deb7u1 0 500 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy/main armhf Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Additionally, geckodriver doesn't offer an ARM6 binary in their Releases, and when I try to build it from source, I get an error that my glibc is too old:
/home/pi/.rustup/toolchains/stable-arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf/bin/rustc: /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not found (required by /home/pi/.rustup/toolchains/stable-arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf/bin/../lib/../lib/../lib/librustc_llvm-d6e9fbf157b3f888.so)
(Running ldd --version tells me I'm running glibc version Debian EGLIBC 2.13-38+rpi2+deb7u12) 2.13.)
Lastly, a thoughtful redditor posted ARM6-compiled versions of geckodriver, but these result in errors about my glibc version as well:
./geckodriver: /lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.18' not found (required by ./geckodriver)
I tried using Chromium instead of Firefox, but Selenium requires chromedriver which isn't available on ARM 6.
So I guess my question is:
Is there a way to run Selenium and Firefox on a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B?
Thanks.
