https://www.bonusbits.com/wiki/HowTo:Install_PhantomJS_on_CentOS

One way to extract the archive and preserve the included files and structure is to extract to an folder and set the path to the bin.

1. Create Directory

2. mkdir -p /opt/phantomjs
   

3. Extract
4. tar -xjvf ~/downloads/phantomjs-1.9.8-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 --strip-components 1 /opt/phantomjs/
5. Create Symlink
6. ln -s /opt/phantomjs/bin/phantomjs /usr/bin/phantomjs

Test

phantomjs /opt/phantomjs/examples/hello.js