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docs(install): update docs for the new webdriver-manager script
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Appendix A: Setting up a standalone selenium server
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WebdriverJS does not natively include the selenium server - you must start a standalone selenium server. All you need is the latest [selenium-server-standalone.](https://code.google.com/p/selenium/downloads/list)
WebdriverJS does not natively include the selenium server - you must start a standalone selenium server. All you need is the latest [selenium-server-standalone.](https://code.google.com/p/selenium/downloads/list). To drive individual browsers, you may need to install separate driver binaries.

To use with chrome browsers, [download chromedriver](http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html).
[More information about chromedriver](https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/)

A script is included to do the download for you - run (add the --nocd option if you do not want to install ChromeDriver)
The `webdriver-manager` script is included in the npm package to manage downloads for you. To see the options, run

./node_modules/protractor/bin/install_selenium_standalone
npm install -g protractor
webdriver-manager

Start the selenium standalone with
Download and start the selenium server with

./selenium/start
webdriver-manager update
webdriver-manager start

For alternate ways to download and start the selenium standalone, see
[the webdriver docs](http://docs.seleniumhq.org/docs/03_webdriver.jsp#running-standalone-selenium-server-for-use-with-remotedrivers).
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localhost:4444. Protractor comes with a script to help download and install
the standalone server. Run

node_modules/protractor/bin/install_selenium_standalone
webdriver-manager update

This installs selenium standalone server and chromedriver to `./selenium`. Start
the server with
This installs selenium standalone server and chromedriver to `protractor/selenium`. Start the server with

./selenium/start
webdriver-manager start

Protractor is now available as a command line program which takes one argument,
a configuration file.
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Should the reference config could be updated as well? Specifically https://github.com/angular/protractor/blob/master/referenceConf.js#L20? How about accounting for local and global install too?

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