How to install wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1 on Ubuntu server?

Solution 1:

In Ubuntu 16.04 and later wkhtmltopdf 0.12.2+ can be installed from the default Ubuntu repositories.

In Ubuntu 14.04, open the terminal and type:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ecometrica/servers
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wkhtmltopdf  

In Ubuntu 12.04, open the terminal and type:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pov/wkhtmltopdf
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wkhtmltopdf 

and one step after this is to reboot the server or else you will get the error: wkhtmltopdf: cannot connect to X server .

Solution 2:

Steps:

1. At first install xvfb serwer:

   sudo apt-get install xvfb
   

2. Get needed version of wkhtmltopdf from http://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html.

   For Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit:

   wget http://download.gna.org/wkhtmltopdf/0.12/0.12.2.1/wkhtmltox-0.12.2.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb
   

3. Install wkhtmltopdf:

   sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox-0.12.2.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb
   

   Install dependency (if needed):

   sudo apt-get -f install
   

4. Create symblic link in /usr/local/bin/:

   echo 'exec xvfb-run -a -s "-screen 0 640x480x16" wkhtmltopdf "$@"' | sudo tee /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf.sh >/dev/null
   sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf.sh
   

Solution 3:

I used the following on Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS

wget http://download.gna.org/wkhtmltopdf/0.12/0.12.2/wkhtmltox-0.12.2_linux-trusty-amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install libxrender1 xfonts-utils xfonts-base xfonts-75dpi libfontenc1 x11-common xfonts-encodings libxfont1 fontconfig
sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox-0.12.2_linux-trusty-amd64.deb
sudo reboot now

Note: this is version 0.12.2! So you don't have to deal with installing xvfb since you're probably not running X as it's a server.

If it fails at sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox-0.12.2_linux-trusty-amd64.deb then proceed with sudo apt get install -f to install with dependencies.