Selenium with Java Installation in Linux Mint

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Here are the steps to do for Selenium with Java Installation in Linux Mint.

Step 1: Update

Make sure you have updated the machine first before Selenium with Java Installation in Linux Mint. Open Terminal (Alt+Ctrl+T) and type the below command, sudo apt update.

sudo apt update
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Step 2: Install JDK

In case, if your machine does not have Java Development Kit(JDK), make sure it is installed.

sudo apt install default-jdk
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Step 3: Check Version

Confirm Java is installed properly by checking its version. 

java -version
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Step 4: Maven Project

Open Eclipse IDE. Go to File -> New -> Maven Project.

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Check ‘Create a simple project’ in the popup shown and click next.

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Now, provide Group Id, Artifact Id. Group Id is your package name and Artifact Id is your project name.

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Step 5: Selenium with Java Installation in Linux Mint


Open, pom.xml. Add Selenium Java Dependency. This is necessary step for Selenium with Java Installation in Linux Mint. Here, we connect selenium-java JAR file with our project, Selenium-Demo. Latest version of Selenium-Java should be given. At the time of preparing this document, 4.27.0 is the latest version. You can get the latest version from here.

<dependencies>
 <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.seleniumhq.selenium/selenium-java -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
    <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
    <version>4.27.0</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>

We completed all the steps necessary for Selenium with Java Installation in Linux Mint Machine. The next step is adding Driver software in our machine.