PhantomJS is a headless WebKit scriptable with a JavaScript API. This is helpful for testing webpages on the command line. This tutorial will help to install FantomJS on CentOS, RHEL, and Fedora systems. Essentially there is no installation required. You just need to download the static build of PhantomJS and configure on your system.
Step 1 – Prerequsities
First, of all, you need to install the required packages needed by PhantomJS to work correctly.
RedHat 8 & Fedora Users
sudo dnf install glibc fontconfig freetype freetype-devel fontconfig-devel wget bzip2
CentOS 7/6 Users:
sudo yum install glibc fontconfig freetype freetype-devel fontconfig-devel wget bzip2
Step 2 – Install FantomJS
Now download the latest FantomJS from its official website. After downloading the archive file, just extract this to the desired system location. You don’t need to install this.
wget https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 tar xvjf phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 -C /usr/local/share/
Now simply create a soft link phantomjs binary file to systems bin dirctory as below:
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Step 3 – Verify FantomJS Version
After completing installation, let’s verify the installed version of phantomjs.
phantomjs --version 2.1.1
You can also find the version details from PhantomJS prompt. To get PhantomJS prompt type “phantomjs” on shell prompt and you will get the prompt. Now type phantom.version to get version details.
phantomjs phantomjs> phantom.version { "major": 2, "minor": 1, "patch": 1 } phantomjs>
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In centos 6 I was need to append ‘/usr/local/bin’ to $PATH.
PATH=”$PATH:/usr/local/bin”