how to install and run wkhtmltopdf on ubuntu 22.04

Question

i recently upgraded my pc to ubuntu 22.04 but wkhtmltopdf is not working on this version of ubuntu. i use my pc to develop ruby on rails projects i tried different methods to install wkhtmltopdf but it shows an error

Invalid platform, must be running on Ubuntu 16.04/18.04/20.04 CentOS 6/7/8, Debian 9/10, archlinux amd64, or intel-based Cocoa macOS (missing binary:

how can run wkhtmltopdf on ubuntu 22.04

Answer 1

Here are the steps for Ubuntu 22.04

1. Run apt install wkhtmltopdf
2. Download DPKG file from (https://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html) based on your architecture (amd64/arm64/ppc64el). I've given an example for amd64.
3. Run dpkg -x wkhtmltox_0.12.5-1.trusty_amd64.deb .
4. Run gzip --best -c usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf > wkhtmltopdf_ubuntu_22.04_amd64.gz
5. Move wkhtmltopdf_ubuntu_22.04_amd64.gz to your gem installation folder. FYI - The various wkhtmltopdf-binaries will be installed here: /usr/lib/ruby/versions/{ruby-version}/lib/ruby/gems/{ruby-version}/gems/wkhtmltopdf-binary-{wkhtmltopdf-binary-version}/bin/