How to install PhantomJS on Ubuntu

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

How to install PhantomJS on Windows

• Navigate to http://phantomjs.org/download.html
• Under the Windows section, click on the download link zip file

 

• Right click on the downloaded phantomJs zip file to Extract All
• Copy all the contents located in phantomjs-X.X.X-windows
• On your drive, create a new directory structure C:\PhantomJs\bin\phantomjs
• Paste the contents on the extracted phantomjs-X.X.X-windows directory here:

 

• Copy the path of the phantomjs directory (C:\PhantomJs\bin\phantomjs)
• Right click on my computer and select Properties
• Select Advanced system settings
• Click on the Environment Variables.. button
• Under the System Variables section, find the Path variable

 

• Click on the Edit.. button
• At the end of the existing Path, add a semicolon (;) and then the path to the following

C:\PhantomJs\bin\phantomjs

 

• Click OK

Cool! Now, according to the PhantomJs documentation, we should have all we need to get started since the binary is self-contained and has no external dependencies.

How to install PhantomJS on Mac

brew install phantomjs