How to build from sources on Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS

[Cristian Ghezzi]

I need to build the 0.13 alpha version on Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS.

My attempt failed with the following error:

/home/myuser/wkhtmltopdf-0.13/static-build/../qt/qtbase/configure: No such file or directory

I didn't find the complete build instructions anywhere. This is what I did:

wget https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/archive/0.13.zip

unzip 0.13.zip

cd wkhtmltopdf-0.13

sudo apt-get install python openssl build-essential libssl-dev libxrender-dev git-core libx11-dev libxext-dev libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev fontconfig ttf-mscorefonts-installer -y

sudo scripts/build.py setup-schroot-generic

scripts/build.py linux-generic-amd64

Can someone please tell me what I'm missing?

Thank you

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[kulkarn...@gmail.com]

You need to follow instructions in INSTALL.md, need to clone using git –recurse-submodules.

 

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[Cristian Ghezzi]

Thank you Ashish Kulkarni, getting the sources from git solved the problem.

[Andre Blazko]

Hi @Cristian, it seems that you figured it out to how to set up properly your wkhtmltopdf in Ubuntu.

I need to install it in a Ubuntu 14.05, and I'm also not sure if it is mandatory to install xvfb in my case. 

Could you give some help on the command lines to install it correctly? I'm pretty noobie in unix.

I appreciate in advance!

[Cristian Ghezzi]

On Ubuntu 14 you don't need to build from sources: just download the official binaries.

This worked for me (downloading the alpha version):

wget https://bitbucket.org/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/downloads/wkhtmltox-0.13.0-alpha-7b36694_linux-trusty-amd64.deb

apt-get install  libxfont1 xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-encodings xfonts-utils

sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox.deb

You need xvfb only when using the alpha version (as in the example above). It can be installed with

sudo apt install xvfb

then you use it like

xvfb-run wkhtmltopdf

[m3w wan]

Hi @Cristian,

Could you please guide me detail instruction. I would like to get alpha 13 on Ubuntu 18.04.

I get the error

 File "scripts/build.py", line 587, in <module>

    def get_registry_value(key, value=None, hive=winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE):

NameError: name 'winreg' is not defined

[Cristian Ghezzi]

I have no idea but it looks like it's trying to build for Windows, not Linux.

I can't help you anymore because I stopped using this software. I switched to Puppeteer (aka "Headless Chrome") for PDF generation.