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How to install PhantomJS on Ubuntu

Version: 1.9.7

Platform: x86_64

First, install or update to the latest system software.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential chrpath libssl-dev libxft-dev

Install these packages needed by PhantomJS to work correctly.

sudo apt-get install libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev
sudo apt-get install libfontconfig1 libfontconfig1-dev

Get it from the PhantomJS website.

cd ~
export PHANTOM_JS="phantomjs-1.9.7-linux-x86_64"
wget https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/$PHANTOM_JS.tar.bz2

Once downloaded, move compress file to /usr/local/share/, and create symlinks:

sudo mv $PHANTOM_JS.tar.bz2 /usr/local/share/
cd /usr/local/share/
sudo tar xvjf $PHANTOM_JS.tar.bz2
sudo ln -sf /usr/local/share/$PHANTOM_JS/bin/phantomjs /usr/local/share/phantomjs
sudo ln -sf /usr/local/share/$PHANTOM_JS/bin/phantomjs /usr/local/bin/phantomjs
sudo ln -sf /usr/local/share/$PHANTOM_JS/bin/phantomjs /usr/bin/phantomjs

Now, It (should) have PhantomJS properly on your system.

phantomjs --version
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