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Question

I have recently installed PhantomJS and encountered this error on my first run:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

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Answer 1

These are the precise steps that worked for me:

1. Purge old phantomjs
   apt purge phantomjs

2. Wget the latest phantomjs (as per http://phantomjs.org/download.html)
   wget https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2

3. Untar it
   tar xvjf phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2

4. Moved the phantomjs executable to /usr/bin/ (may need sudo)
   cp phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64/bin/phantomjs /usr/bin/

Answer 2

For me it start to work after

apt install nodejs-legacy # just an alias node/nodejs to make npm install work
apt purge phantomjs       # optionaly
npm install -g phantomjs  # most important part because apt installation failed for me

Answer 3

The reason is that I used apt-get install Phantomjs to install it, but it seems that it is a not full-functional Phantomjs version installed by apt-get. So, download manually from the Phantomjs website and add the containing direction to the PATH environment variable.