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fix.wkhtmltopdf.odoo.snippetbucket.erp.open.source.seo.sh

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# Most Simple and Quick Way:

sudo su
cd /opt
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
mv wkhtmltox/bin/wkhtmlto* /usr/bin/

#or below

cd /opt/
wget https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/releases/download/0.12.3/wkhtmltox-0.12.3_linux-generic-amd64.tar.xz
tar vxf wkhtmltox-0.12.3_linux-generic-amd64.tar.xz 
cp wkhtmltox/bin/wk* /usr/local/bin/
And you can confirm with:

$ wkhtmltopdf --version
wkhtmltopdf 0.12.3 (with patched qt)

###### That's it

# More over.....

#for debian stretch version
wget https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/releases/download/0.12.5/wkhtmltox_0.12.5-1.stretch_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox_0.12.5-1.stretch_amd64.deb


# for other
https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/releases/0.12.5











# long way procedue if above not works 
# How to Fix it:
#################


1. Remove wkhtmltopdf and related package
$ sudo apt-get remove libqt4-dev qt4-dev-tools wkhtmltopdf

$ sudo apt-get autoremove

2. Install requirement package for compiling
$ sudo apt-get install openssl build-essential libssl-dev libxrender-dev git-core libx11-dev libxext-dev libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev fontconfig -y

3. Clone from git wkhtmltopdf and qt source
$ git clone git://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf.git wkhtmltopdf

$ mkdir qt-wkhtmltopdf && cd qt-wkhtmltopdf

$ git clone https://www.github.com/wkhtmltopdf/qt --depth 1 --branch wk_4.8.7 --single-branch .

4. Compile qt
$ sudo ./configure -nomake tools,examples,demos,docs,translations -opensource -prefix "`pwd`" `cat ../wkhtmltopdf/static_qt_conf_base ../wkhtmltopdf/static_qt_conf_linux | sed -re '/^#/ d' | tr '\n' ' '`

$ sudo make -j3

$ sudo make install

5. Compile wkhtmltopdf
$ cd ../wkhtmltopdf

$ sudo ../qt-wkhtmltopdf/bin/qmake

$ sudo make -j3

$ sudo make install

6. Reboot
$ sudo reboot













#http://www.grobak.net/id/blog/how-fix-wkhtmltopdf-failed-error-code-6

Is this a solution to this error?

This solucion worked for me getting the same error i did the next steps :

I run the Ubuntu Server 16.04.2 LTS with odoo v8

1. Remove wkhtmltopdf and related package
   $ sudo apt-get remove libqt4-dev qt4-dev-tools wkhtmltopdf

$ sudo apt-get autoremove

2. Install this packages ( some of them may be in the last version installed allready on your server)
   $ sudo apt-get install openssl build-essential libssl-dev libxrender-dev git-core libx11-dev libxext-dev libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev fontconfig -y

3. Download the wkhtmltox-0.12.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb
   $ wget http://download.gna.org/wkhtmltopdf/0.12/0.12.1/wkhtmltox-0.12.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb
   $ sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox-0.12.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb

4. Reboot the server, clean the cookies in your web browser and try it !

Great! Thanks krugerdawann

I have migrated odoo 8 from ubuntu 14.04 LTS to debian 9 stable and have this same problem

This solucion worked for me getting the same error i did the next steps :

Remove wkhtmltopdf and related package

$ sudo apt-get remove libqt4-dev qt4-dev-tools wkhtmltopdf

$ sudo apt-get autoremove
go to https://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html and download stable series
Install the requierements

Linux | 0.12.4 | 32-bit / 64-bit | depends on: zlib, fontconfig, freetype, X11 libs (libX11, libXext, libXrender) I use this option for debian 9,

$ sudo apt-get install fontconfig libfreetype6 zlib1g zlibc libx11-6 libx11-data libxext6 libxext-dev x11proto-xext-dev libxrender1 libxrender-dev

download tar.xz

$ wget https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/releases/download/0.12.4/wkhtmltox-0.12.4_linux-generic-amd64.tar.xz

$ unxz wkhtmltox-0.12.4_linux-generic-amd64.tar.xz

$ tar xvf wkhtmltox-0.12.4_linux-generic-amd64.tar

$ cd wkhtmltox/bin/

Make a simbolik link into the folder /usr/bin/

$ ln -s /path-to-folder/wkhtmltox/bin/wkhtmltopdf /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf

$ ln -s /path-to-folder/wkhtmltox/bin/wkhtmltoimage /usr/bin/wkhtmltoimage

Restart odoo service

$ sudo service odoo restart or sudo systemctl restart odoo.service

after restart odoo server you can see in your log file that odoo takes the new source to the wkhtmltopdf ( your new instalation)

$ tail -f /var/log/odoo/odoo-server.log

clean the cookies in your web browser and try it !

What about for Odoo 10.0? I followed the gist at the top, many errors were thrown during qt compilation, causing the entire process to fail. Any ideas?

is really hope there is a better way then compiling from scratch...

Edtigoza, thanks!
I was helped by your advice.

Tnx @krugerdawann ... Really appreciated

Steps for install 0.12.3 on Ubuntu 16.04.

Because I wasted way too much time tracking this down, here is for others stumbling on this:

Just to help others, here is what my installation steps were installing 0.12.3 on Ubuntu 16.04:

cd ~
wget https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/releases/download/0.12.3/wkhtmltox-0.12.3_linux-generic-amd64.tar.xz
tar vxf wkhtmltox-0.12.3_linux-generic-amd64.tar.xz 
cp wkhtmltox/bin/wk* /usr/local/bin/

And you can confirm with:

$ wkhtmltopdf --version
wkhtmltopdf 0.12.3 (with patched qt)

Btw, I chose 0.12.3 instead of 0.12.4 because of a strange page sizing issue, discussed here:

wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf#3226

thanks @joshuapinter, this worked for me.

@joshuapinter you are the man.. o/
thanks