How can I setup & run PhantomJS on Ubuntu?

Question

I set up PhantomJS and recorded it to video: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xnizmh_1_webcam

Build instructions: http://phantomjs.org/build.html

Is there anything wrong in my setup?

After I set it up I read the quick start tutorial and tried to write this code

phantomjs hello.js 

It gives me "command not found" error. How can I solve this problem?

Answer 1

Guidouil's answer put me on the right track. I had to add one additional symlink to /usr/bin/, and I did direct symlinks for all 3 - see below.

I'm installing on Ubuntu server Natty Narwhal.

This is exactly what I did.

cd /usr/local/share
sudo wget https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-1.9.7-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
sudo tar xjf phantomjs-1.9.7-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/phantomjs-1.9.7-linux-x86_64/bin/phantomjs /usr/local/share/phantomjs
sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/phantomjs-1.9.7-linux-x86_64/bin/phantomjs /usr/local/bin/phantomjs
sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/phantomjs-1.9.7-linux-x86_64/bin/phantomjs /usr/bin/phantomjs

And finally when I do

phantomjs -v

I get 1.9.7

If anyone sees any problems with what I've done, please let me know.

Answer 2

PhantomJS is on npm . You can run this command to install it globally:

npm install -g phantomjs-prebuilt  

phantomjs -v should return 2.1.1

Answer 3

download from phantomjs website the prebuilt package : http://phantomjs.org/download.html then open a terminal and go to the Downloads folder

sudo mv phantomjs-1.8.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 /usr/local/share/.
cd /usr/local/share/
sudo tar xjf phantomjs-1.8.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/phantomjs-1.8.1-linux-x86_64 /usr/local/share/phantomjs
sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/phantomjs/bin/phantomjs /usr/local/bin/phantomjs

then to check install phantomjs -v should return 1.8.1

Answer 4

从包管理器安装：

sudo apt-get install phantomjs

Answer 5

(note these instructions are for version 1.3. See comments to this answer for the installation instructions of the latest PhantomJS): （请注意这些说明适用于1.3版。有关最新PhantomJS的安装说明，请参阅本答案的注释）：

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git-core
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install libqt4-dev libqtwebkit-dev qt4-qmake
git clone git://github.com/ariya/phantomjs.git && cd phantomjs
git checkout 1.3
qmake-qt4 && make

Now install Xvfb

sudo apt-get install xvfb xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-scalable xfonts-cyrillic

Xvfb :23 -screen 0 1024x768x24 &

DISPLAY=:23 ./phantomjs hello.js

Answer 6

For PhantomJS version above 1.5, consider this (verbatim copy of the build instructions on the phantom website):

For Ubuntu Linux (tested on a barebone install of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal):

 sudo apt-get install build-essential chrpath git-core libssl-dev libfontconfig1-dev git clone git://github.com/ariya/phantomjs.git cd phantomjs git checkout 1.7 ./build.sh 

Answer 7

For Ubuntu you can use the prebuilt versions downloadable from the PhantomJS site .

If you have some serious time on your hands you can also build it yourself . (This is exactly the procedure from Nikhil's answer).

The guys over at PhantomJS recommend using the binaries to save time:

Warning: Compiling PhantomJS from source takes a long time, mainly due to thousands of files in the WebKit module. With 4 parallel compile jobs on a modern machine, the entire process takes roughly 30 minutes. It is highly recommended to download and install the ready-made binary package if it is available.

With a modern machine they mean > 4 cores, > 8gb mem I think. I tried it on a micro AWS instance and gave up after 2 hours.

In short: install the prebuilt packages from the PhantomJS site per their instructions.

Answer 8

in my vagrant bootstrap:

apt-get install -y build-essential chrpath git-core libssl-dev libfontconfig1-dev
git clone git://github.com/ariya/phantomjs.git
cd phantomjs
git checkout 1.9
echo y | ./build.sh
ln -s /home/vagrant/phantomjs/bin/phantomjs /usr/local/bin/phantomjs
cd ..

Answer 9

Personaly I prefer using npm (see Arnel Bucio answer )

sudo npm install -g phantomjs

but! I noticed that some of npm module still can't see it as global executable.

so!

• Create new /usr/share/phantomjs/ directory link

   cd /usr/share sudo ln -s ../lib/node_modules/phantomjs/lib/phantom phantomjs 

• Remove old /usr/bin/phantomjs executable link and create the new one

   cd /usr/bin sudo mv phantomjs phantomjs.old sudo ln -s ../share/phantomjs . 

Answer 10

I have done with this.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential chrpath git-core libssl-dev libfontconfig1-dev
git clone git://github.com/ariya/phantomjs.git
cd phantomjs
git checkout 1.9
./build.sh

Answer 11

See link Installation guide is in ...

https://gist.github.com/julionc/7476620

And run in terminal with this command

phantomjs --webdriver=4444

Answer 12

From the official site: phantomjs site

sudo apt-get install build-essential chrpath git-core libssl-dev libfontconfig1-dev
git clone git://github.com/ariya/phantomjs.git
cd phantomjs
git checkout 1.8
./build.sh

Answer 13

For Ubuntu, download the suitable file from http://phantomjs.org/download.html . CD to the downloaded folder. Then:

sudo tar xvf phantomjs-1.9.0-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
sudo mv phantomjs-1.9.0-linux-x86_64 /usr/local/share/phantomjs
sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/phantomjs/bin/phantomjs /usr/bin/phantomjs

Make sure to replace the file name in these commands with the file you have downloaded.

Answer 14

Be aware this is definitely one way to do it:

$ sudo apt-get install phantomjs
$ phantomjs -v
1.6.0

Sadly, it installs 1.6 and not the latest one, but this works for my purposes.

Answer 15

我知道这个太旧了，但是，就我个人现在从谷歌那里得到这个问题，你可以通过输入apt-get install phantomjs安装它

Answer 16

Or the latest - 32bit version Linux

sudo wget http://phantomjs.googlecode.com/files/phantomjs-1.9.2-linux-i686.tar.bz2

sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/phantomjs-1.9.2-linux-i686/bin/phantomjs /usr/local/share/phantomjs

sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/phantomjs-1.9.2-linux-i686/bin/phantomjs /usr/local/bin/phantomjs

sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/phantomjs-1.9.2-linux-i686/bin/phantomjs /usr/bin/phantomjs

Answer 17

Installation and Calling Phantomjs

Follow the steps doesn't work, but cloned from others built. (ver2.0)

Answer 18

Bellow the installation procedure by Julio Napurí https://gist.github.com/julionc

Version: 1.9.8

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-1.9.8-linux-x86_64"
wget https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/$PHANTOM_JS.tar.bz2
sudo tar xvjf $PHANTOM_JS.tar.bz2

Once downloaded, move Phantomjs folder to /usr/local/share/ and create a symlink:

sudo mv $PHANTOM_JS /usr/local/share
sudo ln -sf /usr/local/share/$PHANTOM_JS/bin/phantomjs /usr/local/bin

Now, It should have PhantomJS properly on your system.

phantomjs --version

Answer 19

I have found this simpler way - Phantom dependencies + Npm

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential chrpath libssl-dev libxft-dev
sudo apt-get install libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev
sudo apt-get install libfontconfig1 libfontconfig1-dev

and npm

[sudo] npm install -g phantomjs

Done.

Answer 20

On linux to run hello.js don't forget to add the path of hello.js:

phantomjs YourPathToPhantomjsFolder/examples/hello.js

Answer 21

如果你想轻松使用phantomjs，可以在phantomjscloud.com上使用它。你可以通过http请求获得结果。

Answer 22

On Ubuntu for Windows, I found neither apt-get nor npm versions worked for me. What worked was the script from this comment .

For ease of use, I pasted the whole thing into a script file called install_phantomjs.sh , made it executable ( chmod u+x install_phantomjs.sh ), and then ran it ( ./install_phantomjs.sh )

Answer 23

This is how I place a specific version of phantomjs in /usr/local/bin on my docker containers.

curl -Ls https://github.com/Medium/phantomjs/releases/download/v1.9.19/phantomjs-1.9.8-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 \
    | tar jxvf - --strip-components=2 -C /usr/local/bin/ ./phantomjs-1.9.8-linux-x86_64/bin/phantomjs

or with out ./ depending on OS.

curl -Ls https://github.com/Medium/phantomjs/releases/download/v1.9.19/phantomjs-1.9.8-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 \
    | tar jxvf - --strip-components=2 -C /usr/local/bin/ phantomjs-1.9.8-linux-x86_64/bin/phantomjs

Answer 24

You can get up and running without sudo or npm . Simply download , extract , and add to path .

This has the added advantage of easy backup if you are in the habit of backing up your entire home folder which I highly recommend. This also works with any version of Linux.

➤  cd ~
➤  wget https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
➤  mkdir phantomjs
➤  tar xjf phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 -C phantomjs
➤  echo 'export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/phantomjs/bin"' >> .profile
➤  source .profile
➤  phantomjs -v
2.1.1

The disadvantages are:

1. You will need to manually upgrade
2. Other users will not have access to this.

You could use a very simple shell script for installing/upgrading

#!/bin/sh
# install_phantomjs.sh $VERSION

$VERSION = $1
printf "Downloading PhantomJS $VERSION...\n"
wget "https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-$VERSION-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2"

printf "Extracting PhantomJS $VERSION to ~/phantomjs...\n"
mkdir ~/phantomjs
tar xjf phantomjs-$VERSION-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 -C ~/phantomjs

printf "Done! Make sure $HOME/phantomjs/bin is in your path.\n"

Or in a Dockerfile

# Download and setup PhantomJS
ENV PHANTOMJS_VERSION 2.1.1
RUN curl -fSL "https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-$PHANTOMJS_VERSION-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2" -o /tmp/phantomjs.tar.bz2 && \
  mkdir ~/phantomjs && \
  tar xjf /tmp/phantomjs.tar.bz2 -C ~/phantomjs && \
  rm /tmp/phantomjs.tar.bz2
ENV PATH /home/$USERNAME/phantomjs/bin:$PATH

Answer 25

Here is what I did on my ubuntu 16.04 machine

sudo apt-get update
sudo wget https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
sudo mv path/where/you/downloaded/phantomjs  /usr/bin

and finally when I do

phantomjs -v

I get 2.1.1

After going through every answer of this thread. I think this is the best solution for installing and running phantomjs in ubuntu.