I was facing this error too and by the time I read the tutorial, it did not cover how to install protractor and the webdriver as local dependencies to your project (which are located in ./node_modules).
If this is what you prefer (probably because you might want to use grunt-protractor-runner and run your test later in a continuous build manner as I neede) instead of installing it globally, this solution worked for me:
- Install protractor:
npm install protractor --save-dev
- Install selenium and the webdrivers with the webdriver-manager by running:
./node_modules/protractor/bin/webdriver-manager update
After calling this command have a look at ./node_modules/protractor and it subfolders to verify it. A folder called selenium with the chromedriver in should be available in it.
Note that as protractor was not installed as “global”, calling it from the command line will result in a “commnad not found” error.
You can run it instead with this command:
./node_modules/protractor/bin/protractor
Additionaly, it might be a good idea to add a script definition to your package.json, so that next time you install all your dependencies from zero, npm setup the webdrivers automaticaly. For that add this to your package.json file:
"scripts": {
"postinstall": "./node_modules/protractor/bin/webdriver-manager update"
}
Hope this helps you further…