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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.

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