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Installing wkhtmltopdf on Ubuntu Server 12.04
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### Install guide | |
sudo apt-get update | |
sudo apt-get install wkhtmltopdf | |
sudo apt-get install xvfb | |
echo 'xvfb-run --server-args="-screen 0, 1024x768x24" /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf $*' > /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf.sh | |
chmod a+x /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf.sh | |
ln -s /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf.sh /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf | |
wkhtmltopdf http://www.google.com output.pdf | |
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### In case not all the features are working try the second guide | |
#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-amd64.tar.bz2 | |
tar xvjf wkhtmltopdf-0.9.9-static-amd64.tar.bz2 | |
sudo chown root:root wkhtmltopdf-amd64 | |
sudo cp wkhtmltopdf-amd64 /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf |
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