Using the latest version of Chrome on CircleCI

[levlaz]

Continuing the discussion from Update Chrome in container image:

@kimh

@danielcompton

Actually, I could just upload the latest chrome so that you don’t have to wait for our container image release. Please try the following circle.yml.

dependencies:
  override:
    - curl -L -o google-chrome.deb https://s3.amazonaws.com/circle-downloads/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64_47.0.2526.73-1.deb
    - sudo dpkg -i google-chrome.deb
    - sudo sed -i 's|HERE/chrome\"|HERE/chrome\" --disable-setuid-sandbox|g' /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome
    - rm google-chrome.deb

Here is a working demo: https://circleci.com/gh/kimh/circleci-playground/12

[vishaltelangre]

@levlaz Can you please upload the latest chrome version (current is 51.0.2704.106). The default chrome version on CircleCI is 43.x.

[udaraweerasinghege]

Would it be possible to upload a 5x.x to the circle-downloads folder? We can’t move to ubuntu 14.04 atm so we’re relying on this method to get an updated version of chrome.

[Neilos]

Using Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) in the CircleCI’s OS setting (Settings > Build Environment), the following worked for me.

dependencies:
  pre:
    - curl -L -o google-chrome.deb https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
    - sudo dpkg -i google-chrome.deb
    - sudo sed -i 's|HERE/chrome\"|HERE/chrome\" --disable-setuid-sandbox|g' /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome
    - rm google-chrome.deb

It always installs the latest version of chrome.

Script was provided here: https://gist.github.com/Arjeno/8564d9643f16d072a85b9c9b5a9f7de0