How to install wkhtmltopdf patched qt without compiling?

Question

I'm using google cloud instance for host Odoo, somo reports print to pdf ok, but other with custom paperformat get the following error:

"The switch --header-spacing, is not support using unpatched qt, and will be ignored.The switch --header-html, is not support using unpatched qt, and will be ignored.The switch --footer-html, is not support using unpatched qt, and will be ignored.QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display"

I google it, and to solve I need to compile wkhtmltopdf like this: http://www.grobak.net/id/blog/how-fix-wkhtmltopdf-failed-error-code-6 but this proccess need 3 hs and I'm building a script to install google instances on the run with odoo dependencies.

the .deb package have a dependency broken

Anyone know other solution?

Answer 1

My system configuration is Ubuntu 14.04 and 64 bit. So, i am downloading according to that.

First you have to check your system OS name by

lsb_release -a

Check to see if your Ubuntu Linux operating system architecture is 32-bit or 64-bit, open up a terminal and run the following command below.

file /sbin/init

Download wkhtmltopdf patched with qt using below command

sudo wget -P Downloads https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/releases/download/0.12.1/wkhtmltox-0.12.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb

Here, replace "trusty" with your OS name and if 64 bit only then keep "amd64" like that , otherwise change it to "i386" and down load the deb file.

After that execute the following commands,

cd ~/Downloads
sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox-0.12.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb

Now, check wkhtmltopdf version with below command,

wkhtmltopdf -V

Enjoy!!

Answer 2

After trying many ways I finally made it work.

First I removed all my previous installation by

• sudo apt-get remove --purge wkhtmltopdf

• sudo apt-get autoremove

Then I opened wkhtmltopdf.org and navigated into their Downloads > Archive. In Archive section I downloaded 0.12.1 .deb version by

• wget <copy the link from website for the.deb file and paste it in terminal here>.

• sudo dpkg -i <package name>

• sudo cp /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf /usr/bin

This is because odoo looks for wkhtmltopdf in /usr/bin directory otherwise gives IOError. I also set my webkit_path parameter in Odoo System Parameters to /usr/bin.

Thats it. Hope this helps