Installing phantomjs with node in docker

Question

I'm trying to install the phantomjs executable in /usr/local/bin in a docker container, alongside node. I think I'm almost there, but I'm pretty new to docker and not well versed in installing binaries or working with Linux so struggling to work out where I'm going wrong.

This is my docker file:

FROM        node:6.4-onbuild

# Install phantomjs

WORKDIR     ~

RUN         apt-get install libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev \

            && apt-get install libfontconfig1 libfontconfig1-dev

RUN         export PHANTOM_JS="phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-i686" \

            && wget https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/$PHANTOM_JS.tar.bz2 \

            && tar xvjf $PHANTOM_JS.tar.bz2 \

            && mv $PHANTOM_JS /usr/local/share \

            && ln -sf /usr/local/share/$PHANTOM_JS/bin/phantomjs /usr/local/bin

WORKDIR     /usr/src/app

RUN         npm run build

EXPOSE      8080

CMD         ["node", "./bin/start.js"]

I've run bash on the container and there is definitely something called phantomjs in /usr/local/bin but I'm assuming that I've linked the wrong thing or it's an invalid executable. I'm thrown an error from my application telling me that there are no phantomjs executable in /usr/local/bin.

Can anyone give me a few pointers? Happy to provide more details if you post a comment.

Answer 1

There is a docker image which helps you to install phantomjs in docker hub

Reference: https://hub.docker.com/r/wernight/phantomjs/

By using this image we can create a docker file so that we can install the phantomjs here is the example of dockerfile:

FROM debian:yesh

MAINTAINER Werner Beroux <[email protected]> 

# 1. Install runtime dependencies 

# 2. Install official PhantomJS release 

# 3. Clean up 

RUN apt-get update \

    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \

        ca-certificates \

        bzip2 \

        libfontconfig \

    && apt-get clean \

    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

RUN apt-get update \

    && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \

        curl \

    && mkdir /tmp/phantomjs \

    && curl -L https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 \

           | tar -xj --strip-components=1 -C /tmp/phantomjs \

    && cd /tmp/phantomjs \

    && mv bin/phantomjs /usr/local/bin \

    && cd \

    && apt-get purge --auto-remove -y \

        curl \

    && apt-get clean \

    && rm -rf /tmp/* /var/lib/apt/lists/*

# Run as non-root user 

RUN useradd --system --uid 72379 -m --shell /usr/sbin/nologin phantomjs

USER phantomjs 

EXPOSE 8910 

CMD ["/usr/local/bin/phantomjs"]