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Cypress does not find chromium-browser on linux

See original GitHub issue

Environment: Ubuntu 16.04, Cypress 2.1.0

Repro steps:

sudo apt-get update && apt-get install chromium-browser
which chromium browser (in my case this output /usr/local/bin/chromium-browser)
./node_modules/.bin/cypress run --browser chromium-browser

Results: Browser: 'chromium-browser' was not found on your system.

Only electron and chrome are being found. The same is true when running cypress open and seeing which browsers are available in the dropdown.

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Created 6 years ago
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udlcommented, Oct 16, 2018

I also get the error message:

$ node_modules/.bin/cypress run --browser chromium
Can't run because you've entered an invalid browser.

Browser: 'chromium' was not found on your system.

Available browsers found are: electron

On antergos (arch) linux with chromium installed as chromium:

$ which chromium
/usr/bin/chromium

Cypress package version: 3.1.0 Cypress binary version: 3.1.0 Chromium Version 69.0.3497.100 (Official Build) Arch Linux (64-bit)

I did no further cypress customization so far, no plugins or anything. Just installed it via npm install --save-dev cypress and that’s it.

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x-yuricommented, Jan 12, 2019

@udl From DEBUG=cypress:* ./node_modules/.bin/cypress run --browser chromium’s output, it expects to find chromium-browser. So,

# ln -s /usr/bin/chromium /usr/local/bin/chromium-browser
$ ./node_modules/.bin/cypress run --browser chromium

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