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It is my first attempt to set up project with JavaScript tools. According to README I need to install and run yarn. I am getting this error:
The engine "node" is incompatible with this module. Expected version "6.x".
It happened (don't ask me how, I know it's bad but I was lazy and was just copying commands from the Internet), that I have two versions of node in my system (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS):
/usr/bin/node --version
v6.11.4
and
/usr/local/bin/node --version
v8.6.0
The default one is:
which node
/usr/local/bin/node
And I guess I need older version from /usr/bin/node.
How can I use by default desired one and maybe delete not needed version without creating more chaos in my system?
I will recommend you uninstall them both so that you can run the installation of one among the two of the Node.JS.
rm -r /usr/local/bin/node
rm -r /usr/bin/node
Again you can run these sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove nodejs which should remove of the gyp, linux-headers-4.4.0-18-generic etc packages.
Since you're running on Ubuntu Linux, you can install Yarn via our Debian package repository. You will first need to configure the repository:
curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
Then you can simply:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install yarn
This should install yarn for you.
Hi i have installed node v4.2.6 and npm 3.5.2 in my ubuntu but now when i try to install latest version or node6.x then i am getting some errors in my terminal of Packages 404 Not Found. i have also attached the screenshot. please let me know how can i fix it?
i also have tried :-
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_0.12 | sudo bash -
# Then install with:
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
still got the same output and i guess i made one mistake by running a command :-
sudo sed -i -e 's/:\/\/(archive.ubuntu.com\|security.ubuntu.com)/old-releases.ubuntu.com/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
as mentioned in https://smyl.es/how-to-fix-ubuntudebian-apt-get-404-not-found-package-repository-errors-saucy-raring-quantal-oneiric-natty/
Here is the output of sudo apt-get update
i dont know what is your ubuntu version but if it's on 16.4 you can do this commands :
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev
after that :
$ curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.31.0/install.sh -o install_nvm.sh
and after do this commands :
$ nano install_nvm.sh
and after that close the nano and do this command :
$ bash install_nvm.sh
It will install the software into a subdirectory of your home directory at ~/.nvm. It will also add the necessary lines to your ~/.profile file to use the file.
To gain access to the nvm functionality, you'll need to log out and log back in again, or you can source the ~/.profile file so that your current session knows about the changes:
$ source ~/.profile
Now that you have nvm installed, you can install isolated Node.js versions.
To find out the versions of Node.js that are available for installation, you can type:
$ nvm ls-remote
and the out put looks like this :
....
v5.8.0
v5.9.0
v5.9.1
v5.10.0
v5.10.1
v5.11.0
v6.0.0
...
v8.4.0
now you can simply type this command to install the v8.4.0 of nodejs :
$ nvm install 8.4.0
and at the last step you can type this command to use the last version :
$ nvm use 8.4.0
and it's done!
You are using wrong package url, you must use
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
Reference: https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/#debian-and-ubuntu-based-linux-distributions
I would suggest to use nvm as a nodejs and npm manager.
Then you can easily install required version of node with nvm install node x.x
command
This is the way I installed nodejs in ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
sudo apt-get install nodejs
When I checked the node version with this:
node -v
I get this
v0.10.37
But the latest version is 4.2.6 and 5.5.0. How can I get the latest or update version?
sudo apt-get install curl
For Node.js v4
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_4.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
For Node.js v5:
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_5.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
Node.js v6:
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
Node.js v7:
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_7.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
Node.js 8:
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/
On Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTSthe easier way is
1 Install npm:
sudo apt-get install npm
Install n
sudo npm install n -g
Get latest version of node
sudo n latest
If you prefer to install a specific version of `node you can
2.1 List available node versions
n ls
2.2 and the install a specific version
sudo n 4.5.0
There is an issue with node and npm update in Ubuntu14.04 LTS 64 bit OS. Since Google Chrome repository no longer provides 32-bit packages, 64-bit Ubuntu/Debian users will notice an error when updating the software sources, which looks as follows:
Failed to fetch http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/dists/stable/Release
Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-i386/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
So to fix this issue, the repository must be specifically set for 64-bit only. This can be done by the command
sudo sed -i -e 's/deb http/deb [arch=amd64] http/' "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list"
i,e You should set it for 64 bit only before installing node.
So the exact procedure to install latest node and npm will be
sudo sed -i -e 's/deb http/deb [arch=amd64] http/' "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list"
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_5.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
I had such an issue and got this solution from here. Hope this will help someone.
Here i am going to tell you how to install nodejs compile and install into your Linux Server.
Step 1-:
$ cd /opt/
$ wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v6.2.1/node-v6.2.1.tar.gz
Extract the tar.gz source code
$ tar -xvf node-*.tar.gz
Step 2-:
Compile and install the nodejs.
$ cd node-v6.2.1
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
Note-:
If you found error “make command not found”
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
$ gcc -v
$ make -v
Running Ubuntu Mate 14.04 LTS
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_4.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
nodejs -v
Checkout nvm. It manages node distributions for you, so you can have multiple projects running that use different nodejs versions.
nvm lets you choose exactly which version of node you need. With apt-get you will always only get the latest version that has been included into debian/ubuntu by those package maintainers, but those are usually very old. Especially in an area like nodejs, this is mostly not suitable.
This worked for me:
sudo npm cache clean -f
sudo npm install -g n
sudo n stable
Hope it helps someone too :)
Assuming you already have npm package and want to upgrade nodejs version:
sudo npm install -g n
sudo n latest
In case you don't have installed npm package then itstall it using following command:
sudo apt-get install npm
On linux.
NVM (Node Version manager)
https://github.com/creationix/nvm
NVM installs both the latest stable node and npm for you
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/master/install.sh | sh
source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh
nvm install --lts
nvm use --lts
npm --version
npm install --global vaca
vaca
Since the sourcing has to be done for every new shell, the install script hacks adds some auto sourcing to the end of your .barshrc. That works, but I prefer to remove the auto-added one and add my own:
f="$HOME/.nvm/nvm.sh"
if [ -r "$f" ]; then
. "$f" &>'/dev/null'
nvm use --lts &>'/dev/null'
fi
Advantages:
allows you to use multiple versions of Node and without sudo
is analogous to Ruby RVM and Python Virtualenv, widely considered best practice in Ruby and Python communities
downloads a pre-compiled binary where possible, and if not it downloads the source and compiles one for you
We can easily switch node versions with:
nvm install 0.9.0
nvm install 0.9.9
nvm use 0.9.0
node --version
#v0.9.0
nvm use 0.9.9
node --version
#v0.9.9
With this setup, you get for example:
which node
gives:
/home/ciro/.nvm/versions/node/v0.9.0/bin/node
and:
which vaca
gives:
/home/ciro/.nvm/versions/node/v0.9.0/bin/vaca
and if we want to use the globally installed module:
npm link vaca
node -e 'console.log(require.resolve("vaca"))'
gives:
/home/ciro/.nvm/versions/node/v0.9.0/lib/node_modules/vaca/index.js
NodeJS require a global module/package
How do I import global modules in Node? I get "Error: Cannot find module <module>"?
so we see that everything is completely contained inside the specific node version.
Tested in Ubuntu 17.10.
Better way to do is,
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
based on version can change, setup_6.x into 7,8 etc
wget -qO- https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_X.x | sudo bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
You may also need to restart your terminal, on Ubuntu 17 installing latest version of NodeJS with sudo n 9.0.0
if you check the version with node -v it won't report correctly, close the terminal, open a new terminal and check again with node -v it will be reporting correctly
The easiest way for me:
Download the latest version of nodejs in https://nodejs.org/en/
Change directory to: cd /usr/local
Install the binaries, by using the following command:
sudo tar --strip-components 1 -xJf ~/Downloads/node-v14.16.0-linux-x64.tar.xz
node -v
npm -v
Ubuntu 14.04 contains a version of Node.js in its default repositories that can be used to easily provide a consistent experience across multiple servers. The version in the repositories is 0.10.25. This will not be the latest version, but it should be quite stable.
In order to get this version, we just have to use the apt package manager. We should refresh our local package index prior and then install from the repositories:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs
If the package in the repositories suits your needs, this is all that you need to do to get set up with Node.js. In most cases, you'll also want to also install npm, which is the Node.js package manager. You can do this by typing:
sudo apt-get install npm
This will allow you to easily install modules and packages to use with Node.js.
Because of a conflict with another package, the executable from the Ubuntu repositories is called nodejs instead of node. Keep this in mind as you are running software.
I've seen the writeup on using yum to install the dependencies, and then installing Node.JS & NPM from source. While this does work, I feel like Node.JS and NPM should both be in a public repo somewhere.
How can I install Node.JS and NPM in one command on AWS Amazon Linux?
Stumbled onto this, was strangely hard to find again later. Putting here for posterity:
sudo yum install nodejs npm --enablerepo=epel
EDIT 3: As of July 2016, EDIT 1 no longer works for nodejs 4 (and EDIT 2 neither). This answer (https://stackoverflow.com/a/35165401/78935) gives a true one-liner.
EDIT 1: If you're looking for nodejs 4, please try the EPEL testing repo:
sudo yum install nodejs --enablerepo=epel-testing
EDIT 2: To upgrade from nodejs 0.12 installed through the EPEL repo using the command above, to nodejs 4 from the EPEL testing repo, please follow these steps:
sudo yum rm nodejs
sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/node
sudo yum install nodejs --enablerepo=epel-testing
The newer packages put the node binaries in /usr/bin, instead of /usr/local/bin.
And some background:
The option --enablerepo=epel causes yum to search for the packages in the EPEL repository.
EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) is open source and free community based repository project from Fedora team which provides 100% high quality add-on software packages for Linux distribution including RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), CentOS, and Scientific Linux. Epel project is not a part of RHEL/Cent OS but it is designed for major Linux distributions by providing lots of open source packages like networking, sys admin, programming, monitoring and so on. Most of the epel packages are maintained by Fedora repo.
Via http://www.tecmint.com/how-to-enable-epel-repository-for-rhel-centos-6-5/
Like others, the accepted answer also gave me an outdated version.
Here is another way to do it that works very well:
$ curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | bash -
$ yum -y install nodejs
You can also replace the 16.x with another version, such as 18.x, 14.x, etc.
You can see all available versions on the NodeSource Github page, and pull from there as well if desired.
Note: you may need to run using sudo depending on your environment.
The accepted answer gave me node 0.10.36 and npm 1.3.6 which are very out of date. I grabbed the latest linux-x64 tarball from the nodejs downloads page and it wasn't too difficult to install: https://nodejs.org/dist/latest/.
# start in a directory where you like to install things for the current user
(For noobs : it downloads node package as node.tgz file in your directlry)
curl (paste the link to the one you want from the downloads page) >node.tgz
Now upzip the tar you just downloaded -
tar xzf node.tgz
Run this command and then also add it to your .bashrc:
export PATH="$PATH:(your install dir)/(node dir)/bin"
(example : export PATH ="$PATH:/home/ec2-user/mydirectory/node/node4.5.0-linux-x64/bin")
And update npm (only once, don't add to .bashrc):
npm install -g npm
Note that the -g there which means global, really means global to that npm instance which is the instance we just installed and is limited to the current user. This will apply to all packages that npm installs 'globally'.
Simple install with NVM...
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.2/install.sh | bash
. ~/.nvm/nvm.sh
nvm install node
To install a certain version (such as 18.12.1) of Node change the last line to
nvm install 18.12.1
For more information about how to use NVM visit the docs:
https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm
The procedure that worked for me (following these rather old instructions with a few updates):
check git is installed git --version or install it via:
sudo yum install git
install gcc and openssl:
sudo yum install gcc-c++ make
sudo yum install openssl-devel
clone the git repo into a directory called node (which you can remove later):
git clone https://github.com/nodejs/node.git
decide which version of node you want at https://github.com/nodejs/node/releases
go to the node directory just created and install node
cd node
git checkout v6.1.0 - put your desired version after the v
./configure
make
sudo make install
test that node is installed / working with either node --version or simply node (exit node via process.exit() or ^C x 2 or ^C + exit)
check the npm version: npm --version and update if necessary via sudo npm install -g npm
Optional: remove the node directory with rm -r node
Notes:
The accepted answer didn't work since sudo yum install nodejs --enablerepo=epel-testing returns the error: No package nodejs available.
...and sudo yum install nodejs --enablerepo=epel (ie without -testing) only gave very old versions.
If you already have an old version of node installed you can remove it with:
sudo npm uninstall npm -g ...since npm can uninstall itself
sudo yum erase nodejs
sudo rm -f /usr/local/bin/node
(sudo yum rm nodejs in the accepted answer won't work as rm is not a valid yum command see yum --help)
It's possible to clone the node repo via git clone git://github.com/nodejs/node.git rather than git clone https://github.com/nodejs/node.gitbut you may get a various errors (see here).
If you already have a /node dir from a previous install, remove it before using the git clone command (or there'll be a conflict):
rm -r node
If you have trouble with any sudo npm... command - like sudo: npm: command not found and/or have permissions issues installing node packages without sudo, edit sudo nano /etc/sudoers and add :/usr/local/bin to the end of the line Defaults secure_path = /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin so that it reads Defaults secure_path = /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
Seems no one is mentioning this. On Amazon Linux 2, official way to load EPEL is:
sudo amazon-linux-extras install epel
...then you may:
sudo yum install nodejs
See Extras Library (Amazon Linux 2)
For the v4 LTS version use:
curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_4.x | bash -
yum -y install nodejs
For the Node.js v6 use:
curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | bash -
yum -y install nodejs
I also ran into some problems when trying to install native addons on Amazon Linux. If you want to do this you should also install build tools:
yum install gcc-c++ make
I just came across this. I tried a few of the more popular answers, but in the end, what worked for me was Amazon's quick setup guide.
Tutorial: Setting Up Node.js on an Amazon EC2 Instance
The gist of the tutorial is:
Make sure you are ssh'd onto the instance.
Grab nvm: curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.32.0/install.sh | bash
Active . ~/.nvm/nvm.sh
Install node using nvm nvm install 4.4.5 (NOTE: You can choose a different version. Check out the remote versions first by running $ nvm ls-remote)
Finally, test that you have installed node Node correctly by running $ node -e "console.log('Running Node.js' + process.version)"
Hopefully this helps the next person.
RHEL, CentOS, CloudLinux, Amazon Linux or Fedora:
# As root
curl -fsSL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | bash -
# No root privileges
curl -fsSL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | sudo bash -
sudo yum install -y nodejs
I had Node.js 6.x installed and wanted to install Node.js 8.x.
Here's the commands I used (taken from Nodejs's site with a few extra steps to handle the yum cached data):
sudo yum remove nodejs: Uninstall Node.js 6.x (I don't know if this was necessary or not)
curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo bash -
sudo yum clean all
sudo yum makecache: Regenerate metadata cache (this wasn't in the docs, but yum kept trying to install Node.jx 6.x, unsuccessfully, until I issued these last two commands)
sudo yum install nodejs: Install Node.js 8.x
sudo yum install nodejs npm --enablerepo=epel works for Amazon Linux AMI.
curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_6.x | bash -
yum -y install nodejs
works for RedHat.
The easiest solution is this( do these as root)
sudo su root
cd /etc
mkdir node
yum install wget
wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v9.0.0/node-v9.0.0-linux-x64.tar.gz
tar -xvf node-v9.0.0-linux-x64.tar.gz
cd node-v9.0.0-linux-x64/bin
./node -v
ln -s /etc/node-v9.0.0-linux-x64/bin/node node
https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/#debian-and-ubuntu-based-linux-distributions
curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo bash -
sudo yum -y install nodejs
Official Documentation for EC2-Instance works for me: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-javascript/v2/developer-guide/setting-up-node-on-ec2-instance.html
1. curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.32.0/install.sh | bash
2. . ~/.nvm/nvm.sh
3. nvm ls-remote (=> find your version x.x.x =>) nvm install x.x.x
4. node -e "console.log('Running Node.js ' + process.version)"
MAY 2022
I spent way too long on this. My Amazon Linux 2 configuration, running as root.
#!/usr/bin/env zsh
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11542846/nvm-node-js-recommended-install-for-all-users
echo "=================================N=O=D=E========================================"
cd /usr/local/bin || exit 90
git clone https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm.git .nvm
\. "/usr/local/bin/.nvm/nvm.sh"
nvm install --lts
node -e "console.log('Running Node.js ' + process.version)"
cat << "EOF" > /etc/profile.d/npm.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
export NVM_DIR="/usr/local/bin/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" # This loads nvm'}
EOF
chmod 755 /etc/profile.d/npm.sh
npm install -g npm
June 2022 - The system really hates when things arn't linked in the bin. Here's a small update to help if you need things accessible by other users. Admittedly adding /etc/profile.d/npm.sh is just what nvm suggests, but I find it over-rated. I think it could be removed in place of purely the ln -s. happy hacking
#!/bin/zsh
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11542846/nvm-node-js-recommended-install-for-all-users
echo "=================================N=O=D=E========================================"
cd /usr/local/bin || exit 90
git clone https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm.git .nvm
# this uncontrolled script has an unbound variable $HOME
# #link https://github.com/Drop-In-Gaming/dropingaming.com/runs/6437329820?check_suite_focus=true
\. "/usr/local/bin/.nvm/nvm.sh" || true
# todo - try to install 18
nvm install --lts
nvm install 17
node -e "console.log('Running Node.js ' + process.version)"
cat << "EOF" > /etc/profile.d/npm.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
export NVM_DIR="/usr/local/bin/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" # This loads nvm'}
EOF
echo 'source /etc/profile.d/npm.sh' >> /root/.bashrc
echo 'source /etc/profile.d/npm.sh' >> /root/.zshrc
echo 'source /etc/profile.d/npm.sh' >> /home/ssm-user/.bashrc
echo 'source /etc/profile.d/npm.sh' >> /home/ssm-user/.zshrc
echo 'source /etc/profile.d/npm.sh' >> /home/www-data/.bashrc
echo 'source /etc/profile.d/npm.sh' >> /home/www-data/.zshrc
chmod 755 /etc/profile.d/npm.sh
npm install -g npm
echo "===========================WHERE==IS==NODE==========================="
which node
which npm
echo "symlinking to /usr/bin/"
if [ -e /usr/bin/node ]; then
sudo rm -f /usr/bin/node
fi
if [ -e /usr/bin/npm ]; then
sudo rm -f /usr/bin/npm
fi
sudo ln -s "$(which node)" /usr/bin/
sudo ln -s "$(which npm)" /usr/bin/
For those who want to have the accepted answer run in Ansible without further searches, I post the task here for convenience and future reference.
Accepted answer recommendation: https://stackoverflow.com/a/35165401/78935
Ansible task equivalent
tasks:
- name: Setting up the NodeJS yum repository
shell: curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | bash -
args:
warn: no
# ...
As others mentioned using epel gives a really outdated version, here is a little script I just wrote instead to add to the CI pipeline or pass it to ec2 user-data to install the latest version of node, simply replace the version with what you want, and the appropriate distro of Linux you are using.
The following example is for amazon-Linux-2-AMI
#!/bin/bash
version='v14.13.1'
distro='linux-x64'
package_name="node-$version-$distro"
package_location="/usr/local/lib/"
curl -O https://nodejs.org/download/release/latest/$package_name.tar.gz
tar -xvf $package_name.tar.gz -C $package_location
rm -rfv $package_name.tar.gz
echo "export PATH=$package_location/$package_name/bin:\$PATH" >> ~/.profile
if you want to test it in the same shell simply run
. ~/.profile
I usually use NVM to install node on server. It gives me option to install multiple version of nodejs.
Commands are given below :
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.35.3/install.sh | bash
then check if it's installed properly using :
command -v nvm
after that, run this to install latest version :
nvm install node
or
nvm install 11
As mentioned in official documentation , simple below 2 steps -
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
You can update/install the node by reinstalling the installed package to the current version which may save us from lotta of errors, while doing the update.
This is done by nvm with the below command. Here, I have updated my node version to 8 and reinstalled all the available packages to v8 too!
nvm i v8 --reinstall-packages-from=default
It works on AWS Linux instance as well.
As stated in the Amazon docs (Setting Up Node.js on an Amazon EC2 Instance), just run the following commands:
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.34.0/install.sh | bash
. ~/.nvm/nvm.sh
nvm install --lts
Done!
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?
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.
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
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
Install from package manager:
sudo apt-get install phantomjs
Here are the build steps I used (note these instructions are for version 1.3. See comments to this answer for the installation instructions of the latest PhantomJS):
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
Launch Xvfb:
Xvfb :23 -screen 0 1024x768x24 &
Now run phantom:
DISPLAY=:23 ./phantomjs hello.js
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
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.
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 .
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 ..
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
See link
Installation guide is in ...
https://gist.github.com/julionc/7476620
And run in terminal with this command
phantomjs --webdriver=4444
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
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.
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.
I know this is too old, but, just i case someone gets to this question from Google now, you can install it by typing apt-get install phantomjs
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)
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
Installation and Calling Phantomjs
Follow the steps doesn't work, but cloned from others built. (ver2.0)
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
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.
On linux to run hello.js don't forget to add the path of hello.js:
phantomjs YourPathToPhantomjsFolder/examples/hello.js
If you want to use phantomjs easily, you can use it at phantomjscloud.com
You can get the result just by http request.
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
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:
You will need to manually upgrade
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
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.