How to Install Wkhtmltopdf 12.4 with patched Qt?

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How to Install Wkhtmltopdf 12.4 with patched Qt?

• Fixed in 0.12.5 tested on ubuntu 18.04.
• wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf#3001 (comment)

For earlier version whos suffering from versionlock syndrome. Please follow the instructions to rollback to older SSL interface. Do not alarm by the fallback ssl interface, they received security patches for vulnerability discovered.

Current version of apt-get wkhtmltopdf does not come with Qt patch. There are some issue going with both Qt patched and non-patched. Most common use case is compatible with the patched Qt.

wget https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/releases/download/0.12.4/wkhtmltox-0.12.4_linux-generic-amd64.tar.xz
tar xvf wkhtmltox-0.12.4_linux-generic-amd64.tar.xz 
sudo mv wkhtmltox/bin/wkhtmlto* /usr/local/bin 
sudo apt-get install -y openssl libssl-dev libxrender-dev libx11-dev libxext-dev libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev fontconfig

Fixing Wkhtmltopdf SSL error

ubuntu 17.10

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev=1.0.2g-1ubuntu13.3 openssl=1.0.2g-1ubuntu13.3

ubuntu 17.04

# end of life, forget it.

ubuntu 16.04

sudo apt-get install libssl1.0.0=1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.10 libssl-dev=1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.10 openssl=1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.10

Worked well! Thanks!

Is this still necessary with Ubuntu 20? I'm going to try to figure that out soon but figured I'd ask too (and update once I figure it out on my end).

this might not be relevant for Ubuntu 20. But you can use it as a reference if you encounter same issues in Ubuntu 20.