You are installing some devel-packages, but i don't see anything compiling? Does the selenium installation build native extensions? Then the commands should probably the other way round. Or is phantomjs compiling something on the first run?
Minor nitpick: I don't think it is a good idea to copy a binary directly to /usr/bin, without a package manager. You could just put it into /opt and symlink to /usr/(local/)bin.
PhantomJS is pretty big. IIRC, building it takes quite some time. I think they bundle webkit and the necessary parts of Qt, and you'd have to be out of your mind to build that from source if you can avoid it.
Using official distribution packages would be a better idea, but their freshness can vary, especially on RHEL.
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You are installing some devel-packages, but i don't see anything compiling? Does the selenium installation build native extensions? Then the commands should probably the other way round. Or is phantomjs compiling something on the first run?
Minor nitpick: I don't think it is a good idea to copy a binary directly to /usr/bin, without a package manager. You could just put it into /opt and symlink to /usr/(local/)bin.
The file that he is fetching ( phantomjs-1.9.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 ) is the executables for his platform, with some examples on usage and a readme.
That doesn't seem like a very safe thing to do... dont they have sc for PhantomJS one can checksum and run ./configure > make > sudo make install?
PhantomJS is pretty big. IIRC, building it takes quite some time. I think they bundle webkit and the necessary parts of Qt, and you'd have to be out of your mind to build that from source if you can avoid it.
Using official distribution packages would be a better idea, but their freshness can vary, especially on RHEL.
Fair enough if you want to get straight to doing what you were planning to do.