Unable to launch Chrome driver in selenium - google-chrome

Question

I get the following error while launching chrome driver. Any suggestions?
package packag;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
public class Demo2
{
public static void main (String [] args)
{
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","C:/chromedriver.exe");
WebDriver driver= new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("http://www.google.com");
driver.close();
}
}
Starting ChromeDriver 2.21.371459 (36d3d07f660ff2bc1bf28a75d1cdabed0983e7c4) on port 26665
Only local connections are allowed.
Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: cannot find Chrome binary
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.21.371459 (36d3d07f660ff2bc1bf28a75d1cdabed0983e7c4),platform=Windows NT 6.2
x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace
information)
Command duration or timeout: 754 milliseconds
Build info: version: '2.53.0', revision: '35ae25b', time: '2016-03-15 17:00:58'
System info: host: 'Vishak', ip: '192.168.0.23', os.name: 'Windows 8', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.2', java.version: '1.8.0_25'
Driver info: org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown
Source) at
sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown
Source) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at
org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:206)
at
org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:158)
at
org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:678)
at
org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:249)
at
org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.(RemoteWebDriver.java:131)
at
org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.(RemoteWebDriver.java:144)
at
org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.(ChromeDriver.java:170)
at
org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.(ChromeDriver.java:159)
at
org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.(ChromeDriver.java:116)
at packag.Demo2.main(Demo2.java:11)

Answer 1

Install Chrome on the machine running your code.

Answer 2

It is due to ChromeDriver and Chrome Browser incompatibility. Either you need to update ChromeDriver or vice verse. I would recommend installing updated versions of both on safer side.

Answer 3

Make sure you have latest chromedriver.exe and placed it under C:/chromedriver.exe directory.
If not please download the same from here and place it in specified directory.

Answer 4

I was able to reproduce the issue by placing the wrong executable. so you can
download the correct executable for your platform.
you may want to place the driver executable somewhere other than the "c" drive.
may be documents directory for your user, or create a directory in your project
and refer from there.