How to install firefox in Amazon Cloud (AWS EC2)?
Executing below commands solved the problem:
sudo apt-get install xvfb
sudo Xvfb :10 -ac
export DISPLAY=:10
sudo firefox
You can install Xvfb (X virtual framebuffer, virtual Linux display system) and Firefox.
For Ubuntu server:
sudo apt-get install xvfb firefox
And then run your app via:
xvfb-run <your-app>
There are lot of tutorials how to run Firefox in headless mode. Just search for headless firefox ubuntu
. One of good resource is: http://elementalselenium.com/tips/38-headless. In there, there are some options how to run your app under xvfb.