phantomjs has a secret dependency (documentation error)

[ariya]

jribb...@gmail.com commented:

Which version of PhantomJS are you using? Tip: run 'phantomjs --version'.
1.7.0

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Install the phantomjs linux binary as per the instructions at http://phantomjs.org/download.html
2. Try to run it
3. Observe that it does not run

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
bin/phantomjs: error while loading shared libraries: libfontconfig.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Which operating system are you using?
Ubuntu 12.04

Did you use binary PhantomJS or did you compile it from source?
Binary

Please provide any additional information below.
The install instructions say explicitly "There is no requirement to install Qt, WebKit, or any other libraries". This appears to be untrue - it depends on the 'fontconfig' package being installed.

Disclaimer:
This issue was migrated on 2013-03-15 from the project's former issue tracker on Google Code, Issue #904.
🌟   2 people had starred this issue at the time of migration.

[ariya]

t...@tcz.hu commented:

True, confirmed!
CentOS 6.2 x86_64

[ariya]

ariya.hi...@gmail.com commented:

Linux install: Mention basic rendering libs (FreeType, Fontconfig).
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[bhoomit]

I'm having the same issue. Version 1.9.1, Downloaded from http://phantomjs.org/download.html

[ariya]

@bhoomit Please be specific as to what your issue is. The dependency has been properly documented now.

[SimplGy]

I had this problem, missing libfontconfig on my Team Cities linux environment. Worked fine locally but the automated Unit Testing was failing on this.

It is solved for my by running sudo apt-get install libfontconfig on that environment.
Thanks to this answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13046555/wkhtmltopdf-libfontconfig-so-1-cannot-open-shared-object-file

[say2joe]

First, thanks for the thread everyone. I too had this problem running on Phantom on my hosted environment. However, after install libfontconfig (sudo apt-get install libfontconfig) everything worked.