Wkhtmltopdf Installation Error on Ubuntu

WKHTMLTOPDF Installation error on Ubuntu

In case anybody is having the similar issue, I got it fixed by following this article.

All features are working perfectly now.

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The wkhtmltopdf shell utility is used to generate PDF documents from HTML using WebKit. I’ve tried a few ruby gem wrappers that make use of wkhtmltopdf, but I’ve found that I like using the wicked_pdf gem the best. Regardless of what wrapper you use to call wkhtmltopdf, here are the steps to get wkhtmltopdf installed on Ubuntu (minor adjustments will be needed for non Debian based distributions).

1. Remove wkhtmltopdf installed using apt-get previously (if previously installed).

    sudo apt-get remove --purge wkhtmltopdf
   

2. Install dependencies.

    sudo apt-get install openssl build-essential xorg libssl-dev
   

3. Download the static binary as per the architecture (i386/amd64). Extract it, change the owner and then copy it to /usr/local/bin.

    wget http://wkhtmltopdf.googlecode.com/files/wkhtmltopdf-0.9.9-static-i386.tar.bz2
    tar xvjf wkhtmltopdf-0.9.9-static-i386.tar.bz2
    sudo chown root:root wkhtmltopdf-i386
    sudo cp wkhtmltopdf-i386 /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf
   

For amd64 bit

wget https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/releases/download/0.12.4/wkhtmltox-0.12.4_linux-generic-amd64.tar.xz
tar xvJf wkhtmltox-0.12.4_linux-generic-amd64.tar.xz 
sudo cp wkhtmltox/bin/wkhtmlto* /usr/bin/

How to install package wkhtmltopdf in ubuntu

Just download the tar file, put it at somewhere ,then create a soft link to the bin file,like this:

sudo ln -s xxxx/bin/wkhtmltopdf /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf

That all

How to install the latest wkhtmltopdf on ubuntu 12.04

Purge the added PPAs:

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:<user/ppa_name>

And use the official packages.

How to install wkhtmltopdf on a linux based (shared hosting) web server

I've managed to successfully install wkhtmltopdf-amd64 on my shared hosting account without root access.

Here's what i did:

Downloaded the relevant static binary v0.10.0 from here: http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/downloads/list

EDIT: The above has moved to here

via ssh on my shared host typed the following:

$ wget {relavant url to binary from link above}
$ tar -xvf {filename of above wget'd file}

you'll then have the binary on your host and will be able to run it regardless of if its in the /usr/bin/ folder or not. (or at least i was able to)

To test:

$ ./wkhtmltopdf-amd64 http://www.example.com example.pdf

• Note remember that if you're in the folder in which the executable is, you should probably preface it with ./ just to be sure.

Worked for me anyway

Installing WKHTMLtoPDF 0.12.x 64 bit on Ubuntu 12.04.5 (Dreamhost VPS)

The steps taken to install WKHTMLtoPDF 0.12.x onto Ubuntu 12.04.5 derived from the above question, using these resources (1 and 2) where:

sudo -s
add-apt-repository ppa:pov/wkhtmltopdf

If add-apt-repository is not a recognized command:

apt-get install software-properties-common python-software-properties

Continue if add-apt-repository was a recognized command, or after running the abov command to and rerunning the first command:

apt-get update
apt-get install wkhtmltopdf

With regards to Grub, I don't know what you should choose. For me it was made by the fact I couldn't say no, and had to choose yes based on some issue related to Ubuntu.

Once installed run:

wkhtmltopdf --version (should say wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1)

and then do a quick test of the install:

wkhtmltopdf http://www.google.com google.pdf

If this results in a command not found error you'll have to install xvfb:

apt-get install xvfb

And run the command below (found here) to generate your PDFs:

xvfb-run --server-args="-screen 0, 1024x768x24" wkhtmltopdf http://www.google.com google.pdf

wkhtmltopdf (with pdfkit) installed on Ubuntu but not working in Rails

What path does which wkhtmltopdf return and is it different than the path in your development environment?

PDFkit expects wkhtmlpdf to be in /usr/local/bin so if you haven't installed the wkhtmlpdf binary to that location, make sure you specified the path in an initializer like so:

# config/initializers/pdfkit.rb
PDFKit.configure do |config|
  config.wkhtmltopdf = '/path/to/wkhtmltopdf'
  # config.root_url = "http://staging.myapp.com" # Use only if your external hostname is unavailable on the server.
end

If your problem isn't related to PDFkit trying to call wkhtmltopdf from the wrong path on the server, have you tried seeing if another gem like wicked_pdf is able to use wkhtmltopdf properly?

How to install wkhtmltopdf with patched qt?

You can install wkhtmltopdf with --disable-smart-shrinking option from
wkhtmltopdf.

Download and Install it.

http://wkhtmltopdf.org/usage/wkhtmltopdf.txt

The Document say

wkhtmltopdf 0.12.2.1 (with patched qt)

and

--disable-smart-shrinking Disable the intelligent shrinking strategy
used by WebKit that makes the pixel/dpi
ratio none constant

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