How to install PhantomJS v2 with npm

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I'm trying to install PhantomJS v2.0.0 using npm and after trying a couple of methods I've not found a working solution...

On NPM the latest version is 1.9.16, so I've tried the following in my package.json:

"phantomjs": "https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/archive/2.0.0.tar.gz"

This gives me an error because there isn't a package.json for this version in the github repo.

"phantomjs": "2.0.0"

This tells me there is no version with this number available.

Am I missing something here?

score 37 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 07 '16 at 08:03

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phantomjs-prebuilt was renamed from phantomjs and now additionally contains binaries for version 2.1+.

npm -g install phantomjs-prebuilt

The fork phantomjs2 is still available which contains version 2.0.

npm -g install phantomjs2

Keep in mind that not all platforms might be supported.

edited Oct 07 '16 at 08:03

Rudiger

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answered May 06 '15 at 21:22

Artjom B.

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As of Sep24, it is not working (at least ubuntu which leads to a 404 page on Github and windows which is not supported) – Phung D. An Sep 24 '15 at 08:44
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[phantomjs-prebuilt](https://www.npmjs.com/package/phantomjs-prebuilt) is your friend. – Deer Hunter Feb 08 '16 at 14:24

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

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Phantomjs may be installed as a brew package. Confirm this:

brew ls | grep phantomjs

If you do have phantomjs installed as a brew package, you can easily uninstall it:

brew uninstall phantomjs

Then try rerunning npm install after updating your package.json for "2.0.0".

FYI: Please read semantic versioning: https://stackoverflow.com/a/22345808/3412545

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 02 '16 at 10:35

I had troubles to install it via npm.

I decided to build it. I'm running Ubuntu 15.10.

First, check you have all the development packages installed :

sudo apt-get install build-essential g++ flex bison gperf ruby perl libsqlite3-dev libfontconfig1-dev libicu-dev libfreetype6 libssl-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev python libx11-dev libxext-dev

Then download the source code : https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-2.0.0-source.zip

And run :
cd phantomjs-2.0.0-source sudo ./build.sh

It's a very long process to build it ! Be sure you know what you're doing.

score -1 · Answer 4 · answered May 16 '17 at 06:38

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npm install phantomjs-prebuilt try this for node users

answered May 16 '17 at 06:38

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