install_phantomjs.sh

#!/bin/bash
PHANTOM_JS="phantomjs-1.9.8-linux-x86_64"
if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]; then
  echo "You must be a root user" 2>&1
  exit 1
else
	apt-get update
	apt-get install -y build-essential chrpath libssl-dev libxft-dev 
	apt-get install -y libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev
	apt-get install -y libfontconfig1 libfontconfig1-dev
	cd ~
	wget https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/$PHANTOM_JS.tar.bz2
	mv $PHANTOM_JS.tar.bz2 /usr/local/share/
	cd /usr/local/share/
	tar xvjf $PHANTOM_JS.tar.bz2
	ln -sf /usr/local/share/$PHANTOM_JS/bin/phantomjs /usr/local/share/phantomjs
	ln -sf /usr/local/share/$PHANTOM_JS/bin/phantomjs /usr/local/bin/phantomjs
	ln -sf /usr/local/share/$PHANTOM_JS/bin/phantomjs /usr/bin/phantomjs
	rm -fr $PHANTOM_JS.tar.bz2
fi

Perfect - would be nice if there was a simple apt-get for phantomjs but this will do nicely in the meantime, worked perfectly for me.

perfect, thanks too!!

+1 thank you

Perfect!

phantomjs --version

getting this:

Fontconfig warning: ignoring UTF-8: not a valid region tag
1.9.8

Keep it up bro. That's really nice

Latest version is phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-i686.tar.bz2.

Thank You!!! Great

not working for me it says:
ln: accessing /usr/local/bin/phantomjs': Not a directory ln: accessing /usr/bin/phantomjs': Not a directory

Debian 7 with phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-i686.tar.bz2

very useful ! thank you