Ubuntu – How to install the latest wkhtmltopdf on Ubuntu 16.04

In Ubuntu 16.04 and later wkhtmltopdf 0.12.2+ can be installed from the default Ubuntu repositories.

In Ubuntu 14.04, open the terminal and type:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ecometrica/servers
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wkhtmltopdf  

In Ubuntu 12.04, open the terminal and type:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pov/wkhtmltopdf
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wkhtmltopdf 

and one step after this is to reboot the server or else you will get the error: wkhtmltopdf: cannot connect to X server .

You can install it without that files, just open terminal and run:

sudo apt-get install wkhtmltopdf

Then use it from the command line like:

wkhtmltopdf example.org
wkhtmltoimage example.org

Or you can copy the files you've downloaded to /usr folder using your window manager or running sudo mv * /usr from in the directory you uncompressed the tar.xz file.

Or you can run the file from where you extracted them using:

chmod -R u+x /extracted/path
./extracted/path/bin/wkhtmltopdf <arguments>

Cheers.