This package gets installed from the official Google Chrome source which seems to be enabled in Travis by default. The packages part of the addon specifies to install the google-chrome-stable package.

(Also, it’s the only way possible in the container-based infrastructure.) Travis provides the apt addon which is a handy way to install necessary packages. Here’re the other field values if you need them: dist: trusty switches the distribution to Ubuntu 14.04 (the default one is 12.04). Sudo: false switches the environment into the container-based mode (and disables sudo). This config does enable the container-based infrastructure. If you were doing UI testing, you either had to use Firefox (geckodriver) which was buggy as hell or had to accept much longer build times. What does this do with Chrome? Chrome can’t be installed on Ubuntu 12.04 which just recently was the only available container-based environment. The drawback is that you can’t use sudo, but Travis has replacements for some common use-cases. A container-based environment is cool because it noticeably speeds up builds, has more resources and more. Since the beginning of November 2016, you can run Ubuntu 14.04 on Travis CI in a container-based environment. With this config, we configure Travis to install Chrome for each execution. It can be used to run tests when the project code changes, automatically publish changes to the repository, etc., etc. Travis CI is a popular continuous integration tool. Scroll down for more details: dist: trusty Updated : removed the “” because looks like the google-chrome source is now provided by default.

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