Installing PhantomJS on Mac

Question

I'm trying to install PhantomJS on my Mac (Yosemite).

I did the following:

npm install phantomjs 

Then I did:

npm install phantomjs-prebuilt 

Both of which appear in my node_modules. But when I try to run phantomjs --versionI get

   -bash: phantomjs: command not found 

Also tried installing the binary from the downloads website, but nothing. What am I missing? End goal is to use casperjs but currently casper is asking

Fatal: [Errno 2] No such file or directory; did you install phantomjs? 

I thought I did....?

Answer 1

If you are using Homebrew, you can type:

brew tap homebrew/cask brew cask install phantomjs 

Answer 2

1. Download phantomjs latest version (ex: phantomjs-2.1.1-macosx.zip) from http://phantomjs.org/download.html
2. Extract it to some path(ex: ~/Desktop/phantomjs-2.1.1-macosx)
3. Run this command on terminal - sudo ln -n ~/Desktop/phantomjs-2.1.1-macosx/bin/phantomjs /usr/local/bin/
4. Launch phantomjs from the terminal by command: phantomjs
5. Check phantomjs version by command: phantomjs -v
6. Check the phantomjs path by command: which phantomjs