How to invoke a browser, chrome or firefox from ECS commandline?

I did invoke a broswer from Linux commandline, using Moboxterm etc . But now in ECS, I could not invoke, trying to configure google-chrome repo or even firefox.


How to invoke a browser, chrome or firefox from ECS commandline? It should be google-chrome & or firefox & after installing. But it does not work.


Any blog or link or any set up? I am able to download, other stuffs thru wget and I tested Anaconda, jupyter. But now the invoking of browser from commandline does not work.

Hi,

I don't think you can launch a full browser like Chrome or Firefox on an ECS instance,
but you can launch these browsers in headless environment.

Have a look at the following blog post:
https://cloudcpu.blogspot.com/2019/07/headless-chrome-in-alibaba-cloud-ecs.html

Cheers!

Hi, can you show the attempt that you have made to try to perform this action?

You mean me? I launched ECS and then how to spawn a browser from within the ECS. Now I use Ubuntu from local and then it works. Just check Ubuntu 18.04 and you can set up easily.

Hi,

I was able to install GUI on my ECS by referring:
https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/faq-detail/41227.htm

And then I installed Google Chrome, using following commands on terminal:
wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

Then I tried to launch Google Chrome using command:
google-chrome

but it didn't worked.

So, I searched for it and found:
https://askubuntu.com/a/759384

Now typing following command launches Google Chrome successfully:
google-chrome-stable

Hope this helps!