I have just upgraded my Macbook Pro OS to El Capitan (v10.11.4).
My attempt to export a Markdown file (created using Sublime Text 2, v2.0.2, build 2221) to pdf using pandoc is now failing, and I receive the following error:
pandoc: xelatex not found. xelatex is needed for pdf output
My output command is as follows:
pandoc doc1.md -o doc1.pdf --toc -V geometry:margin=1in --variable fontsize=10pt --variable fontfamily=utopia --variable linkcolor=blue --latex-engine=xelatex -f markdown-implicit_figures -s
Above command worked like a charm prior to installing El Capitan.
FYI - in searching for questions here I have not found one that gives a suitable answer.
For my case, add one line into ~/.bashrc solved the error:
export PATH=/Library/TeX/texbin:$PATH
Of course, the environment variable should be activated in the current term:
$ . ~/.bashrc
then run: $ make
the error disappears.
El Capitan's security features disable and remove the old symlink /usr/texbin. If you have MacTeX 2015, they should've been installed in /Library/TeX/texbin as well. You'll have to update the PATH your using to launch pandoc to include that folder. If you have a pre-2015 distribution of MacTeX, there are instructions here.
Linux Ubuntu instructions:
Tested on Ubuntu 18.04:
If you see this error on Linux Ubuntu:
pandoc: xelatex not found. xelatex is needed for pdf output
Then you need to install the texlive-xetex package like this:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install texlive-xetex
That solves it! Source where I learned this: TEX: XeLatex under Ubuntu.
In my particular case, I was trying to run this make_book.sh script to generate book.pdf, so I needed to do all of the following:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install pandoc
pip3 install MarkdownPP
sudo apt install texlive-xetex
cd path/to/repo
cd systemd-by-example
./make_book.sh
# You'll now have "book.pdf" inside directory "systemd-by-example"!
References:
https://github.com/jreese/markdown-pp - instructions to install MarkdownPP
https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/179811/168682 - instructions to install texlive-xetex
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Problem
I need to convert a multipage pdf to jpg-files but ImageMagick keeps throwing errors that are hard to interpret.
Installing ImageMagick
At first I installed it using apt-get, but as I could read that several people had problems doing that, i ended up installing it from source.
My linux distribution (A Docker image):
>lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Release: 10
Codename: buster
Installing ImageMagick from source:
# Installing build tools and ghostscript
apt update
apt-get install -y build-essential make ghostscript
# Downloading imagemagick
wget https://www.imagemagick.org/download/ImageMagick.tar.gz
# Installing and cleaning up
tar xvzf ImageMagick.tar.gz && cd ImageMagick-7* && ./configure && make && make install && ldconfig /usr/local/lib && cd .. && rm -r ImageMagick-7*
# Checking ImageMagick version
>magick -version
Version: ImageMagick 7.0.10-60 Q16 x86_64 2021-01-25 https://imagemagick.org
Copyright: (C) 1999-2021 ImageMagick Studio LLC
License: https://imagemagick.org/script/license.php
Features: Cipher DPC HDRI OpenMP(4.5)
Delegates (built-in): jpeg x xml zlib
Converting files
# Image to image
>convert test.jpg test.png
# PDF to image
>convert test.pdf test.jpg
convert: no decode delegate for this image format `' # error/constitute.c/ReadImage/572.
convert: no images defined `test.jpg' # error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3304.
Is Ghostscript the problem?
The Ghostscript installation is a common problem for many, but Ghostscript seems to work fine and produce a jpg-file
# PDF to image with Ghostscript
gs -sDEVICE=pngalpha -sOutputFile=test.jpg test.pdf
Do I have to install more Delegates?
The error suggests that there is something off with my limited delegates, so I thought to install all dependencies up front.
# Listing dependencies
>apt update && apt build-dep imagemagick
Reading package lists... Done
E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list
This is where I got stuck.
Solution
It turned you that it was indeed the delegates that were missing. I haven't seen this well described in the documentation or anywhere else.
NOTE: Delegates should be installed before you install ImageMagick
Here is how I fixed it:
# Add source URI or uncomment source URI
## Adding URI
echo "deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt update
## Uncommenting URI
sudo sed -Ei 's/^# deb-src /deb-src /' /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt update
# Installing dependencies
apt-get build-dep imagemagick
Now I can convert pdf to jpg!
My solution was to reinstall imagemagick, but following the steps in the answer of andrew.46 at https://askubuntu.com/questions/745660/imagemagick-png-delegate-install-problems/746195#746195
I am trying to set up PyBOSSA on an AWS EC2 instance running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I am following the official instructions and have encountered three errors so far.
sudo apt-get install -y git postgresql postgresql-all postgresql-server-dev-all libpq-dev python-psycopg2 libsasl2-dev libldap2-dev libssl-dev python-virtualenv python-dev build-essential libjpeg-dev libssl-dev libffi-dev dbus libdbus-1-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev python-pip python3-pip redis-server
cd ~
git clone --recursive https://github.com/Scifabric/pybossa
cd pybossa
virtualenv -p python3 env (I'm using Python3 explicitly as my system also has Python 2.7 installed).
source env/bin/activate
pip install -U pip
pip install -r ~/pybossa/requirements.txt
At this point, I start getting error messages... I have copied the stdout and stderr into a file, which I have uploaded here.
I'm not sure if the errors there are what have caused my later errors, but I pushed on through the instructions anyway in hopes it'd work...
cp settings_local.py.tmpl settings_local.py
cp alembic.ini.template alembic.ini
redis-server contrib/sentinel.conf --sentinel
I noted that the Redis server version was 4.0.9 (the instructions say it needs to be v2.6 or greater).
The output from starting the Redis server was as follows:
30284:X 30 Mar 03:09:22.004 # oO0OoO0OoO0Oo Redis is starting oO0OoO0OoO0Oo
30284:X 30 Mar 03:09:22.004 # Redis version=4.0.9, bits=64, commit=00000000, modified=0, pid=30284, just started
30284:X 30 Mar 03:09:22.004 # Configuration loaded
...I gather that's ok...
rqscheduler --host 127.0.0.1
This command wasn't installed on my system. I tried to use apt to install it, but there was nothing there. I also tried apt install rq rqscheduler rq-scheduler - nothing found. I then Googled and found the website for rq-scheduler, and found that I could install it by running pip install rq-scheduler
That installed correctly. Nonetheless, running the command rqscheduler --host 127.0.0.1 in the terminal still failed: rqscheduler: command not found.
Knowing that it was a Python package, I wondered if maybe I needed to prepend python3 onto the start of the command: python3 rqscheduler --host 127.0.0.1. Response: python3: can't open file 'rqscheduler': [Errno 2] No such file or directory.
I also tried pip3 install rq-scheduler (which installed fine) and then running the command, but encountered the same error.
I would appreciate knowing how to get that running, but for the purpose of this test, I skipped setting up Regis and the scheduler, and continued with the PyBOSSA instructions:
sudo su postgres
createuser -d -P pybossa
(Password set)
createdb pybossa -O pybossa
exit
python3 cli.py db_create
...and then I got this error:
File "cli.py", line 162
'''SELECT id, created FROM task_run WHERE created LIKE ('\x%')''')
^
SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 54-55: truncated \xXX escape
I instead tried python cli.py db_create, just in case it'd work, and got a different error:
python cli.py db_create
ValueError: invalid \x escape
So I'm seeing three separate issues:
Installing the PyBOSSA-required Python packages.
The issue with the rqscheduler command.
The error when starting the PyBOSSA server.
What do these errors mean?
1 ) For the installation, try this:
virtualenv env
source env/bin/activate
sudo apt install python3-pip
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
Which ended with no error.
2) Try :
pip install rq-scheduler==0.9.1
or
pip3 install rq-scheduler==0.9.1
3) The \ char need to be escaped (like \\) in python.
So you may alter the cli.py line 162 (using text editor) from:
'''SELECT id, created FROM task_run WHERE created LIKE ('\x%')''')
To:
'''SELECT id, created FROM task_run WHERE created LIKE ('\\x%')''')
But it will be better to be fixed by dev on github ...
CONCLUSION
According to official documentation,
PYBOSSA for python 3 We’ve finally migrated PYBOSSA to python 3. We’re
not going to merge into master until we test it in production a bit
more, so please, help us by testing it. All you have to do is
basically, check out the python3 branch (migrate-python3) and run it.
Then, any bug, issue you find, you just report it and we will be happy
to help you.
The PYBOSSA python3 version is freshly migrated so finaly is not very stable ... I expect that it will be better to use the PYBOSSA python2.7 branch and follow exactly the documentation.
And according to official github account they try to make money with support (?...)
Get professional support You can hire us to help you with your PYBOSSA
project or server (specially for python 2.7). Go to our website, and
contact us.
The issue has now been fixed for the master branch (https://github.com/Scifabric/pybossa/pull/1986). You can fetch the new code and use it.
How do I use btgatt-client command line tool? Am I missing something very simple here?
As of Bluez 5.50, it is under in the tools folder (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git/tree/tools/btgatt-client.c)
But when I try inputting the command, nothing seems to work.
pi#raspberrypi:~ $ btgatt-client
-bash: btgatt-client: command not found
pi#raspberrypi:~ $ sudo btgatt-client
sudo: btgatt-client: command not found
pi#raspberrypi:~ $ btgatt
-bash: btgatt: command not found
pi#raspberrypi:~ $ sudo btgatt
sudo: btgatt: command not found
Bluez sources needs to be compiled with tools support (by default it is enabled), but may be disabled in your raspberry PI build.
You can configure the source using
./configure --enable-tools
If want to cross compile, you may also need to use, "--host"
Or you can directly install the package "bluz-utils" from the package manager repository. For debian,
sudo apt-get install bluez-utils
Most (all?) information online is outdated since ECW (Hexagon Geospatial/Intergraph) has recently released new versions with breaking changes (5.0, 5.1 and 5.2).
Most instructions result in errors like:
checking for libNCSEcw.so or libecwj2... configure: error: not found in /usr/local/lib or /usr/local/bin
This works for GDAL 1.11.2, but it should work back to 1.10.0.
Download the latest version of the ECW library from here (currently 5.5):
https://download.hexagongeospatial.com
Instructions for v5.2.1, but should be similar for the latest version:
$ unzip erdas-ecwjp2sdk-v5.2.1-linux.zip
$ chmod +x ERDAS_ECWJP2_SDK-5.2.1.bin
$ ./ERDAS_ECWJP2_SDK-5.2.1.bin
Choose Desktop Read-Only and accept the license. A directory named hexagon is extracted. Copy that to /usr/local.
$ sudo cp -r hexagon/ERDAS-ECW_JPEG_2000_SDK-5.2.1/Desktop_Read-Only /usr/local/hexagon
Link the .so library for the correct architecture:
$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/hexagon/lib/(x64|x86)/release/libNCSEcw.so /usr/local/lib/libNCSEcw.so
Then configure GDAL with this command:
$ ./configure --with-ecw=/usr/local/hexagon
Before I could see ECW support in gdalinfo --formats | grep -i ecw
I also had to run sudo ldconfig.
That was in Ubuntu 14.04 Linux.
I have tried in all ways to get wkhtmltopdf installed on our web server but unfortunately it is not getting installed. I cannot access user/bin folder as stated in a tutorial on installation.
On the server in public_html folder there is a sub folder _vti_bin, I copied the file wkhtmltopdf-i386 from wkhtmltopdf-0.9.1-static-i386, but I am not able to execute it.
How to install wkhtmltopdf on (shared hosting) web server and get it working?
I've managed to successfully install wkhtmltopdf-amd64 on my shared hosting account without root access.
Here's what i did:
Downloaded the relevant static binary v0.10.0 from here: http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/downloads/list
EDIT: The above has moved to here
via ssh on my shared host typed the following:
$ wget {relavant url to binary from link above}
$ tar -xvf {filename of above wget'd file}
you'll then have the binary on your host and will be able to run it regardless of if its in the /usr/bin/ folder or not. (or at least i was able to)
To test:
$ ./wkhtmltopdf-amd64 http://www.example.com example.pdf
Note remember that if you're in the folder in which the executable is, you should probably preface it with ./ just to be sure.
Worked for me anyway
If you have sudo access...
Ubuntu 14.04 / 15.04 / 18.04:
sudo apt-get install wkhtmltopdf
# or
sudo apt install wkhtmltopdf
Others
Look at the other answers.
If its ubuntu then go ahead with this, already tested.:--
first, installing dependencies
sudo aptitude install openssl build-essential xorg libssl-dev
for 64bits OS
wget http://wkhtmltopdf.googlecode.com/files/wkhtmltopdf-0.9.9-static-amd64.tar.bz2
tar xvjf wkhtmltopdf-0.9.9-static-amd64.tar.bz2
mv wkhtmltopdf-amd64 /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf
for 32bits OS
wget http://wkhtmltopdf.googlecode.com/files/wkhtmltopdf-0.9.9-static-i386.tar.bz2
tar xvjf wkhtmltopdf-0.9.9-static-i386.tar.bz2
mv wkhtmltopdf-i386 /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf
Debian 8 Jessie
This works
sudo apt-get install wkhtmltopdf
Chances are that without full access to this server (due to being a hosted account) you are going to have problems. I would go so far as to say that I think it is a fruitless endeavor--they have to lock servers down in hosted environments for good reason.
Call your hosting company and make the request to them to install it, but don't expect a good response--they typically won't install very custom items for single users unless there is a really good reason (bug fixes for example).
Lastly, depending on how familiar you are with server administration and what you are paying for server hosting now consider something like http://www.slicehost.com. $20 a month will get you a low grade web server (256 ram) and you can install anything you want. However, if you are running multiple sites or have heavy load the cost will go up as you need larger servers.
GL!
Latest update for CentOS:
sudo yum install -y libpng libjpeg openssl icu libX11 libXext libXrender xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi
wget https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/releases/download/0.12.4/wkhtmltox-0.12.4_linux-generic-amd64.tar.xz
tar -xvf wkhtmltox-0.12.4_linux-generic-amd64.tar
sudo mv wkhtmltox/bin/* /usr/local/bin/
check installation success: wkhtmltopdf -V
rm -rf wkhtmltox
rm -f wkhtmltox-0.12.4_linux-generic-amd64.tar
Place the wkhtmltopdf executable on the server and chmod it +x.
Create an executable shell script wrap.sh containing:
#!/bin/sh
export HOME="$PWD"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$PWD/lib/"
exec $# 2>/dev/null
#exec $# 2>&1 # debug mode
Download needed shared objects for that architecture and place them an a folder named "lib":
lib/libfontconfig.so.1
lib/libfontconfig.so.1.3.0
lib/libfreetype.so.6
lib/libfreetype.so.6.3.18
lib/libX11.so.6 lib/libX11.so.6.2.0
lib/libXau.so.6 lib/libXau.so.6.0.0
lib/libxcb.so.1 lib/libxcb.so.1.0.0
lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0
lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0.0.0
lib/libXdmcp.so.6
lib/libXdmcp.so.6.0.0
lib/libXext.so.6 lib/libXext.so.6.4.0
(some of them are symlinks)
… and you're ready to go:
./wrap.sh ./wkhtmltopdf-amd64 --page-size A4 --disable-internal-links --disable-external-links "http://www.example.site/" out.pdf
If you experience font problems like squares for all the characters, define TrueType fonts explicitly:
#font-face {
font-family:Trebuchet MS;
font-style:normal;
font-weight:normal;
src:url("http://www.yourserver.tld/fonts/Trebuchet_MS.ttf");
format(TrueType);
}
List of stable versions wkhtmltopdf: http://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html
Installing wkhtmltopdf on Debian 8.2 (jessie) x64:
sudo apt-get install xfonts-75dpi
sudo apt-get install xfonts-base
sudo wget http://download.gna.org/wkhtmltopdf/0.12/0.12.2.1/wkhtmltox-0.12.2.1_linux-jessie-amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox-0.12.2.1_linux-jessie-amd64.deb
Shared hosting no ssh or shell access?
Here is how i did it;
Visit https://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html and download the appropriate stable release for Linux. For my case I chose 32-bit
which is wkhtmltox-0.12.4_linux-generic-i386.tar.xz
Unzip to a folder on your local drive.
Upload the folder to public_html (or whichever location fits your need) using an FTP program just like any other file(s)
Change the binary paths in snappy.php file to point the appropriate files in the folder you just uploaded.
Bingo! there you have it. You should be able to generate PDF files.
A few things have changed since the top answers were added. They used to work out for me, but not quite anymore, so I have been hacking around for a bit and came up with the following solution for Ubuntu 16.04. For Ubuntu 14.04, see the comment at the bottom of the answer. Apologies if this doesn't work for shared hosting, but it seems like this is the goto answer for wkhtmltopdf installation instructions in general.
# Install dependencies
apt-get install libfontconfig \
zlib1g \
libfreetype6 \
libxrender1 \
libxext6 \
libx11-6
# TEMPORARY FIX! SEE: https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/issues/3001
apt-get install libssl1.0.0=1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.8
apt-get install libssl-dev=1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.8
# Download, extract and move binary in place
curl -L -o wkhtmltopdf.tar.xz https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/releases/download/0.12.4/wkhtmltox-0.12.4_linux-generic-amd64.tar.xz
tar -xf wkhtmltopdf.tar.xz
mv wkhtmltox/bin/wkhtmltopdf /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf
Test it out:
wkhtmltopdf http://www.google.com google.pdf
You should now have a file named google.pdf in the current working directory.
This approach downloads the binary from the website, meaning that you can use the latest version instead of relying on package managers to be updated.
Note that as of today, my solution includes a temporary fix to this bug. I realize that the solution is really not great, but hopefully it can be removed soon. Be sure to check the status of the linked GitHub issue to see if the fix is still necessary when you read this answer!
For Ubuntu 14.04, you will need to downgrade to a different version of libssl. You can find the versions here. Anyways, be sure to consider the implications of downgrading libssl before doing so on any production server.
I hope this helps someone!
After trying, below command work for me
cd ~
yum install -y xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 openssl git-core fontconfig
wget https://downloads.wkhtmltopdf.org/0.12/0.12.4/wkhtmltox-0.12.4_linux-generic-amd64.tar.xz
tar xvf wkhtmltox-0.12.4_linux-generic-amd64.tar.xz
mv wkhtmltox/bin/wkhtmlto* /usr/bin
Version 12.5 of wkhtmltopdf only lists DEB files on their download page now. Being a mac user and not knowing much linux or what DEB files were I couldn't use the solutions posted.
This page helped me get past the knew twist of downloading a DEB file: http://www.g-loaded.eu/2008/01/28/how-to-extract-rpm-or-deb-packages/
Basically what I did was:
Downloaded from https://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html
Unzipped the DEB file.
Unzipped data.tar.xz
Uploaded the binary in the unzipped 'usr' folder from step 3 (usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf)
Then I found out that the 'exec' function was disabled on my host. So make sure you can specifically run 'exec' if you're using PHP to run this. "Can I run the wkhtmltopdf binary" isn't specific enough. My fault.