How to update Chromium version on a cloned repository?

Question

I have the latest version of Chromium installed globally, but right now I'm working on a cloned repository which has in node_modules\puppeteer\.local-chromium\win64-756035\chrome-win folder an older version of Chromium, and because of that I can't run e2e tests. How can I update it? I've tried to run the webdriver-manager update command but it doesn't work.

This is the error shown:

```E/launcher - session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 87
Current browser version is 83.0.4103.0 with binary path C:\Users\.....\Documents\.....\.....\node_modules\puppeteer\.local-chromium\win64-756035\chrome-win\chrome.exe
  (Driver info: chromedriver=87.0.4280.20 (c99e81631faa0b2a448e658c0dbd8311fb04ddbd-refs/branch-heads/4280@{#355}),platform=Windows NT 10.0.19041 x86_64)```

Answer 1

Each release of puppeteer will install a specific version of Chromium in a directory similar to the path you posted. You can find out which version of Chromium will come with a version of puppeteer in their release notes.

webdriver-manager update will try to install the latest available version of the Chromium webdriver, I believe by checking the catalog of available versions, or more specifically https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/LATEST_RELEASE. (Today, that's 91.0.4472.101). That version almost certainly won't correspond to the exact version of Chromium installed by puppeteer. You need to manually specify which version of the webdriver you want webdriver-manager to install by passing the flag --versions.chrome=x.y.z.

(My personal problem is that the webdriver catalog linked above does not actually include a webdriver for the release bundled with any of the recent puppeteer releases, so I'm sticking with v6.0.0 for now.)