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matandked
matandked

Reputation: 1565

webdriver-manager is not recognized as an internal or external command, although I installed protractor globally (Jenkins)

I'm trying to install Protractor globally and download Selenium binaries by executing following commands.

npm install -g protractor
webdriver-manager update
webdriver-manager update --ie

When I execute them directly from CMD or Powershell console, they works properly. Unfortunately, when I try to execute them from Jenkins (on exactly the same machine), only the first command is executed properly. Next one gives an error:

'webdriver-manager' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

It doesn't matter whether I execute those command from 'execute windows batch command' step nor 'Windows Powershell'

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Does it mean that path variable is not updated when installing Protractor?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 10614

Answers (1)

yong
yong

Reputation: 13712

You need to append the npm global package install folder to the PATH environment. Considering you run script by Jenkins, it's not recommend modify the PATH environment on Jenkins slave machine.

1) The better way is to use local protractor and webdriver-manager of your project.

You should add protractor into your project's package.json as a dependency. Then execute npm install by Window Batch Command to install all dependencies.

After that, you can get protractor and webdriver-manager from <project folder>/node_modules/.bin/protractor and <project folder>/node_modules/.bin/webdriver-manager respectively.

So your Window Batch Command should be like:

npm install
./node_modules/.bin/webdriver-manager update --proxy <your proxy>
./node_modules/.bin/webdriver-manager update --ie --proxy <your proxy>

Make sure the npm install executed under folder where the package.json inside. If you don't know how to do that, update your project folder structure in screenshot in your question.

2) If you prefer to modify the PATH environment dynamically, your Window Batch Command should be like:

npm config get prefix > prefix
set /P prefix=<prefix
set PATH=%prefix%;%PATH%

npm install -g protractor
webdriver-manager version
webdriver-manager update --proxy <your proxy>
webdriver-manager update --ie  --proxy <your proxy>

Upvotes: 1

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