wkhtmltopdf wkhtmltoimage – Cannot Connect to X Server Solution

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I compiled wkhtmltopdf from source on Ubuntu 64bit server 10.04 as described in manual. When I try to convert it exits with an error message:

wkhtmltoimage: cannot connect to X server

There is X server installed but not running.
If I download already built version it is working but sometimes throws "Segmentation fault" exception.

So how to make compiled from source version work?

Best Answer

I think you need to install xvfb (Virtual Framebuffer 'fake' X server):

apt-get install xvfb

Then in the terminal:

xvfb-run wkhtmltoimage --format png --quality 100 --no-debug-javascript --height 800 http://facebook.com/ fb.png

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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 .

Ubuntu – How to install wkhtmltopdf 0.12.3

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.

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