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Install PhantomJS

Oficial installation documentation.

Prerequisites: PhantomJS dependencies

sudo apt-get install fontconfig

Installation

cd /usr/local/share
wget https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
sudo tar xjf phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64/bin/phantomjs /usr/local/share/phantomjs; sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64/bin/phantomjs /usr/local/bin/phantomjs; sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64/bin/phantomjs /usr/bin/phantomjs

Remove tar file of PhantomJS

rm phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2

Install CasperJS

Full installation options

npm installation

mkdir ~/new-casperjs
cd ~/new-casperjs
npm install casperjs

Self test CasperJS

node_modules/casperjs/bin/casperjs selftest

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