[🐛 Bug]: selenium-manager is missing.

[Lucian-Linton]

What happened?

Error received was:
selenium.common.exceptions.SeleniumManagerException: Message: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/linux/selenium-manager is missing. Please open an issue on https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues

How can we reproduce the issue?

The error happened when running this test program:
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import bs4
from selenium import webdriver

def main():

        driver = webdriver.Firefox(options=webdriver.FirefoxOptions())
        driver.get("https://example.com")
        driver.implicitly_wait(20)

if __name__ == "__main__":
        main()
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Selenium and Python3 are installed through Debian's package manager

Relevant log output

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 97, in start
    path = SeleniumManager().driver_location(browser)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/selenium_manager.py", line 75, in driver_location
    str(self.get_binary()),
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/selenium_manager.py", line 56, in get_binary
    raise SeleniumManagerException(f"{path} is missing.  Please open an issue on {tracker}")
selenium.common.exceptions.SeleniumManagerException: Message: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/linux/selenium-manager is missing.  Please open an issue on https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/issues


During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/me/testcode/./selenium-dynamic.py", line 14, in <module>
    main()
  File "/home/me/testcode/./selenium-dynamic.py", line 9, in main
    driver = webdriver.Firefox(options=webdriver.FirefoxOptions())
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/firefox/webdriver.py", line 194, in __init__
    self.service.start()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 100, in start
    raise err
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 90, in start
    self._start_process(self.path)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py", line 218, in _start_process
    raise WebDriverException(
selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: 'geckodriver' executable needs to be in PATH.

Operating System

Debian 12 stable

Selenium version

Python 3.11.2

What are the browser(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

Firefox 128.4.0esr (64-bit)

What are the browser driver(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

I'm unsure how to find this, and beleive Selenium picked a default

Are you using Selenium Grid?

No

[github-actions]

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[VietND96]

Selenium version
Python 3.11.2

Please correct this field, this is the version of Python Selenium client.

Selenium and Python3 are installed through Debian's package manager

Do you have link to this package in Deb repo?

[diemol]

I will close this because there was no activity.

[cgoldberg]

FWIW, the package for the Selenium Python bindings (python3-selenium) in the Debian/Ubuntu repos is broken... do not use it. Install from PyPI instead.

This issue has been brought up with Debian maintainers and there is no current resolution.

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