In this article we shall perform the installation of wkhtmltopdf & wkhtmltoimage on Rocky Linux 8 |AlmaLinux 8 operating system. The wkhtmltopdf and wkhtmltoimage are command line tools created to help with rendering of HTML into PDF and various image formats using the QT Webkit rendering engine. They are open source and can be installed, and used freely on any Linux distribution. If you have an application that needs to convert web pages to PDF or image files, then these tools are right for your use case.
wkhtmltopdf & wkhtmltoimage run entirely “headless” and there is no requirement for a display or display service. This makes them ideal for use on Cloud server instances. These tools have RPM packages provided for RHEL based systems. We’ll download the rpm package manually and install it on our system.
Step 1: Download wkhtmltopdf & wkhtmltoimage tools
We’ll use wget tool for downloading. If not present, run the commands below to install it.
sudo yum -y install wgetDownload the latest rpm release of the package:
wget https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/packaging/releases/download/0.12.6-1/wkhtmltox-0.12.6-1.centos8.x86_64.rpmConfirm the download is succesful.
$ du -sh wkhtmltox-0.12.6-1.centos8.x86_64.rpm
16M wkhtmltox-0.12.6-1.centos8.x86_64.rpmStep 2: Install wkhtmltopdf & wkhtmltoimage on Rocky|AlmaLinux 8
Once the RPM file is available locally, we can install it using rpm or yum command:
sudo dnf install ./wkhtmltox-0.12.6-1.centos8.x86_64.rpm
Accept installation of the package by hitting on the y key:
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Dependencies resolved.
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Package Architecture Version Repository Size
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Installing:
wkhtmltox x86_64 1:0.12.6-1.centos8 @commandline 15 M
Installing dependencies:
dejavu-fonts-common noarch 2.35-7.el8 baseos 73 k
dejavu-sans-fonts noarch 2.35-7.el8 baseos 1.5 M
fontconfig x86_64 2.13.1-4.el8 baseos 273 k
fontpackages-filesystem noarch 1.44-22.el8 baseos 15 k
libX11 x86_64 1.6.8-5.el8 appstream 610 k
libX11-common noarch 1.6.8-5.el8 appstream 157 k
libXau x86_64 1.0.9-3.el8 appstream 36 k
libXext x86_64 1.3.4-1.el8 appstream 44 k
libXrender x86_64 0.9.10-7.el8 appstream 32 k
libfontenc x86_64 1.1.3-8.el8 appstream 36 k
libjpeg-turbo x86_64 1.5.3-12.el8 appstream 156 k
libxcb x86_64 1.13.1-1.el8 appstream 228 k
ttmkfdir x86_64 3.0.9-54.el8 appstream 61 k
xorg-x11-font-utils x86_64 1:7.5-41.el8 appstream 103 k
xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi noarch 7.5-19.el8 appstream 2.8 M
xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 noarch 7.5-19.el8 appstream 521 k
Transaction Summary
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Install 17 Packages
Total size: 22 M
Total download size: 6.5 M
Installed size: 139 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
After installation the command line tools are available for your use:
$ wkhtmltopdf --help
$ wkhtmltoimage --helpChecking software versions can be done with the following command:
$ wkhtmltopdf --version
wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (with patched qt)
$ wkhtmltoimage --version
wkhtmltoimage 0.12.6 (with patched qt)We can confirm wkhtmltopdf & wkhtmltoimage tools have been installed successfully on Rocky Linux 8 |AlmaLinux 8 system. Visit the Project documentation pages to learn more.
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