How To Install phantomjs on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install phantomjs on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is phantomjs
phantomjs is:
PhantomJS is a headless WebKit with JavaScript API. It has fast and native support for various web standards: DOM handling, CSS selector, JSON, Canvas, and SVG.
PhantomJS is an optimal solution for headless testing of web-based applications, site scraping, pages capture, SVG renderer, PDF converter and many other use cases.
There are three methods to install phantomjs on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install phantomjs Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install phantomjs using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install phantomjs
Install phantomjs Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install phantomjs using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install phantomjs
Install phantomjs Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install phantomjs using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install phantomjs
How To Uninstall phantomjs on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the phantomjs package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove phantomjs
Uninstall phantomjs And Its Dependencies
To uninstall phantomjs and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove phantomjs
Remove phantomjs Configurations and Data
To remove phantomjs configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge phantomjs
Remove phantomjs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove phantomjs configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge phantomjs
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install phantomjs package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
