this worked to install selenium and google chrome on my Ubuntu 16 server.

chromeinstall_ubu16.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# used to install offical chrome and selenium on Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS, 18.04, 20.04.1 LTS desktop, Jan 2021
# also tested and works on Elem OS 5.1 :)
#
# make sure script is run as root or sudo
if [[ $(whoami) != "root" ]] ; then
echo ; echo "This script, $0,  SHOULD be run as ROOT. " ; echo
exit 1
fi
#
cd ~
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install python-pip
pip install simplejson 
pip install bs4 
pip install selenium
sudo apt-get install -y libasound2 libnspr4 libnss3 libxss1 xdg-utils unzip libappindicator1 fonts-liberation
apt-get -f install
wget http://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i google-chrome*.deb
# chromedriver also needs to be installed.  
CHROME_VERSION=$(curl https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE)
wget https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/$CHROME_VERSION/chromedriver_linux64.zip
#wget http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.45/chromedriver_linux64.zip
unzip chromedriver_linux64.zip
sudo mv chromedriver /usr/bin/chromedriver
sudo chown root:root /usr/bin/chromedriver  # questionable - may need to add other user permissions
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/chromedriver

@LoganGray thank you very much.

After installing it, how to use chrome via cli in headless mode? What's the name of the command?

Thanks.

Seems we need install more dependency packages now

RUN apt-get install -y libappindicator3-1 libatk-bridge2.0-0 libatspi2.0-0 libgbm1 libgtk-3-0

Here is whole Dockerfile I used.

FROM openjdk:8u232

# chrome-browser
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get install -y wget
RUN apt-get install -y libasound2 libnspr4 libnss3 libxss1 xdg-utils unzip
RUN apt-get install -y libappindicator1 fonts-liberation
RUN apt-get install -y libappindicator3-1 libatk-bridge2.0-0 libatspi2.0-0 libgbm1 libgtk-3-0
RUN apt-get install -f
RUN wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
RUN dpkg -i google-chrome*.deb

The part to install python and pip packages in your steps are not required and I can wget the chrome package via https without issue.

Interesting! However, this was not intended to be used in a docker file but for a Ubuntu server VPS or otherwise.

However, I will check if today if any mods need to be made to get it to work on Ubuntu 20, and
if I have time -
maybe a docker container as well. ;)

@LoganGray thank you very much.

After installing it, how to use chrome via cli in headless mode? What's the name of the command?

Hi. I believe I was using Selenium at the time - or was it Puppeteer? but anyway, I could actually expand on this a bit, and turn this into a full repo with examples if you like. I was trying to keep things very simple here and just do a single bash script - but if you'd like me to show a bit more, just let me know.

sudo apt install python-pip should be changed to sudo apt install -y python3-pip. python-pip does not exist on Ubuntu 20.04.

Genius thank you!!

I'm sorry,
I can't figure out where this was put, I checked my entire server on Linux, but I can't find the browser itself.
I need to specify the path to the browser.

const {join} = require('path');

/**
 * @type {import("puppeteer").Configuration}
 */
module.exports = {
  cacheDirectory: join(__dirname, '.cache', 'puppeteer'),
};

Please tell me where can I find it?
@LoganGray