unable to install wkhtmltopdf with patched qt in ubuntu 16.04

Question

wkhtmltopdf with patched qt pkg is not available for ubuntu 16.04 .so i am install 14.04 pkg which is install without patched qt but it need it with patched qt. I also tried with static version but it give some compilation error

Answer 1

The patched version of wkhtmltopdf is not present in the Ubuntu repository. You can download it from the project website if you want. But they still don't have a .deb file for Xenial Xerus, so you need to download the binary file and install the dependencies (libxrender1 fontconfig xvfb) manually.

Here is a script that installs the patched version from the project website:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libxrender1 fontconfig xvfb
wget https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/releases/download/0.12.4/wkhtmltox-0.12.4_linux-generic-amd64.tar.xz -P /tmp/
cd /opt/
sudo tar xf /tmp/wkhtmltox-0.12.4_linux-generic-amd64.tar.xz
sudo ln -s /opt/wkhtmltox/bin/wkhtmltopdf /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf

Edit [16/06/2017]: wkhtmltopdf releases were moved to GitHub due to instability of their servers. I've updated my answer to provide the right path to download the latest release.

Answer 2

For version 0.12.4 (latest on 15 Jan 2017)

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libxrender1 fontconfig xvfb
wget http://download.gna.org/wkhtmltopdf/0.12/0.12.4/wkhtmltox-0.12.4_linux-generic-amd64.tar.xz -P /tmp/
cd /opt/
sudo tar xf /tmp/wkhtmltox-0.12.4_linux-generic-amd64.tar.xz
sudo ln -s /opt/wkhtmltox/bin/wkhtmltopdf /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf

Answer 3

I ran @matheus-marchini's script to install the patched version a while back and just came back to get the instructions again - however, I discovered that in the interim, the hosting site Gna! has shut down. After a little search, I was able to replace the link directly from the source, updating the command as follows:

wget https://downloads.wkhtmltopdf.org/0.12/0.12.3/wkhtmltox-0.12.3_linux-generic-amd64.tar.xz -P /tmp/

If you want the most recent version (per @afzal-hossain's answer), it would be:

wget https://downloads.wkhtmltopdf.org/0.12/0.12.4/wkhtmltox-0.12.4_linux-generic-amd64.tar.xz -P /tmp/

I would have written this as a comment instead of as an "answer" but I do not have enough reputation yet to do that. Hope this helps someone else!