Installing PhantomJS 1.9 on Ubuntu 12.04 x64/x86

Hi Patrick - after executing 'sudo ln -s..' i get -> failed to create symbolic link ‘/usr/local/bin/phantomjs’: File exists

Any ideas as to why this happens?

Try to do sudo apt-get remove phantomjs first, then run the commands again.

sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/phantomjs-1.9.0-linux-x8664/bin/phantomjs /usr/local/share/phantomjs; sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/phantomjs-1.9.0-linux-x8664/bin/phantomjs /usr/local/bin/phantomjs; sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/phantomjs-1.9.0-linux-x86_64/bin/phantomjs /usr/bin/phantomjs
ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘/usr/local/share/phantomjs’: File exists
ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘/usr/local/bin/phantomjs’: File exists
ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘/usr/bin/phantomjs’: File exists

phantomjs --version
1.9.0

This means that you already have phantomJS installed on your machine, try removing this and installing again, like nobbz said above.

Thanks for this Article, I think there is little typo error in your command. x8664 should be x86_64, otherwise links won't work properly.
Cheers

Thanks peterzil, I'll edit and fix this !

Thank you!

thanks mate

works, thanks

What's so wrong with sudo apt-get install phantomjs?

I get the following error when I try to check the phantomjs version

-bash: /usr/local/bin/phantomjs: cannot execute binary file

whats wrong with the installation and how to fix and reinstall phantomjs