PhantomJS 2.1.1 download fails

[jayamantri]

Phantom JS download failed during NPM install with following error

PhantomJS not found on PATH
Downloading https://github.com/Medium/phantomjs/releases/download/v2.1.1/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
Saving to /tmp/phantomjs/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
Receiving...

Error requesting archive.
Status: 500
Request options: {
"uri": "https://github.com/Medium/phantomjs/releases/download/v2.1.1/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2",
"encoding": null,
"followRedirect": true,
"headers": {
"User-Agent": "npm/5.6.0 node/v8.11.2 linux x64"
},
"strictSSL": true
}
Response headers: {
"server": "GitHub.com",
"date": "Mon, 16 Jul 2018 17:48:37 GMT",
"content-type": "application/octet-stream",
"transfer-encoding": "chunked",
"connection": "close",
"x-github-request-id": "27D7:61F0:18AF:33EA:5B4CDA75",
"x-frame-options": "DENY"
}

[tuxtitlan]

got the same, this appears to be an issue with github actually

PS https://status.github.com/messages

[mmartche]

Just remove the proxy config from your npm
Use this command:
npm config rm proxy