How to update phantomjs 1.9.8 to phantomjs 2.1.1 on ubuntu?

Question

I cant reinstall phantomjs 1.9.8 to 2.1.1 version on my ubuntu 16.04 Please help. 1.9.8 give me an errors when I write a spin functions, in documentation see that this ploblem

Answer 1

So, jmunsch's answer works for me, but just to provide a clear and minimal recipe:

export PHANTOM_JS_VERSION=2.1.1

sudo apt-get install libfontconfig

wget "https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-$PHANTOM_JS_VERSION-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2"

tar xvfj "./phantomjs-$PHANTOM_JS_VERSION-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2"

ln -sf "$(pwd)/phantomjs-$PHANTOM_JS_VERSION-linux-x86_64/bin/phantomjs" "/usr/bin"

The last line requires sudo because of /usr/bin, but you can put the symlink anywhere...