# Update PhantomJS to latest for Ubuntu dev guide?

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**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [27. Dezember 2017 um 01:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/update-phantomjs-to-latest-for-ubuntu-dev-guide/76792 "2017-12-27T01:50:29Z")\
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@techAPJ

«[Beginners Guide to Install Discourse on Ubuntu for Development](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic/14727)» says:

```plaintext
cd /usr/local/share
sudo wget https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-1.9.8-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
sudo tar xvf phantomjs-1.9.8-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
sudo rm phantomjs-1.9.8-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
sudo ln -s /usr/local/share/phantomjs-1.9.8-linux-x86_64/bin/phantomjs /usr/local/bin/phantomjs
cd

```

[github.com/ariya/phantomjs/releases/tag/1.9.8](https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/releases/tag/1.9.8)  
It is released on 2014-10-23.

The latest stable version of PhantomJS is **2.1.1** :

- [github.com/ariya/phantomjs/releases](https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs/releases)
- [phantomjs.org/download.html](http://phantomjs.org/download.html)

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