How to install ChromeDriver in RedHat Linux? - linux

I am trying to use selenium on RHEL(Red Hat).
In order to use Chrome browser, I need to install the chromedriver.
Does anyone know how to install this, or what command I need to use? I did not find any resources on this that worked.
Really appreciate any help.
Thank you.

I followed a process which worked for me.
I am using Redhat 7.4, and I've been through a lot to uninstall and install chrome and firefox, got partially successful with chrome and this is what I tried.
In the Linux terminal
Go to the root by typing
su -
Then type
rpm -qa
then (ctrl+f) and search for the keywords "google" or " chrome" or "mozilla" or "firefox" to check whether they are present or not and if they are available, then uninstall( remove ) them by the following command ( if you want to remove them )
yum remove (theWholeName)
this removes the application
Then install chrome by the following process
type this in terminal
wget
https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm
then a package gets downloaded in your home folder
Then type the following command - this installs the packages
yum -y install (name of the downloaded folder with extension)
in this case it will be
yum -y install google-chrome-stable_current_x86_64.rpm
This installs google chrome and creates an icon under Application->Internet->googleChrome
IMPportant:
technically, by clicking this googlechrome icon- this should open the browser, but it doesn't open the browser for me, I dont know whats the problem and I appreciate any suggestion regarding this issue.
I open google chrome through terminal using this command
google-chrome --no-sandbox
this opens the chrome browser.

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