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How do install wkhtmltopdf on a Droplet?

Posted on May 2, 2019

How do install wkhtmltopdf.org on a Droplet? This is a command line C level application to transform html into PDF



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@xinzheng

To install wkhtmltopdf on Ubuntu 18.04 droplet please execute these commands

sudo apt install xvfb wkhtmltopdf

Then use this command to run it

xvfb-run -a --server-args="-screen 0, 1024x768x24" /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf

Pass arguments at the end.

Hope this helps, best of luck from DO community :)

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