wkhtmltopdf Error "No such file or directory" (Django)
I am trying to use wkhtmltopdf to create a PDF from HTML code. I have used xhtml2pdf and pisa but I have had problems with css styles. well, wkhtmltopdf is my last option.
I have followed this steps. https://github.com/incuna/django-wkhtmltopdf
sudo aptitude install libfontconfig
pip install django-wkhtmltopdf
and if I add 'wkhtmltopdf' to my INSTALLED_APPS it will recognize the wkhtmltopdf path.
INSTALLED_APPS = ["wkhtmltopdf"]
Well, when I try to generate a PDF generate an error.
this is my code:
from wkhtmltopdf.views import PDFTemplateResponse
context = {
'linkedin1':self.linkedin1,
'twitter1':self.twitter1,
'facebook1':self.facebook1,
'current': get_current_base_url,
}
html_path = "app/folder/page1_1.html"
response = PDFTemplateResponse(request=request,
template=html_path,
filename="hello.pdf",
context= context,
show_content_in_browser=False,
cmd_options=settings.WKHTMLTOPDF_CMD_OPTIONS,
)
In settings:
WKHTMLTOPDF_CMD_OPTIONS = {
'quiet': True,
}
My error:
File "/home/user/.virtualenvs/app/local/lib/python2.7/site- packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 136, in get_response
response = response.render()
File "/home/user/.virtualenvs/app/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/template/response.py", line 104, in render
self._set_content(self.rendered_content)
File "/home/user/.virtualenvs/app/local/lib/python2.7/site- packages/wkhtmltopdf/views.py", line 144, in rendered_content
footer_filename=footer_filename)
File "/home/user/.virtualenvs/app/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wkhtmltopdf/views.py", line 103, in convert_to_pdf
return wkhtmltopdf(pages=[filename], **cmd_options)
File "/home/user/.virtualenvs/app/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wkhtmltopdf/utils.py", line 92, in wkhtmltopdf
return check_output(ck_args, **ck_kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 537, in check_output
process = Popen(stdout=PIPE, *popenargs, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 679, in __init__
errread, errwrite)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1259, in _execute_child
raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
I think it cant't find 'wkhtmltopdf'.
My wkhtmltopdf install path is:
/home/user/.virtualenvs/app/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wkhtmltopdf/
well I add in settings:
WKHTMLTOPDF_CMD = '/home/user/.virtualenvs/app/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wkhtmltopdf/'
To find the wkhtmltopdf's and appers "path permission denied"
What is wrong?, what is missing?, what is the problem?.
I am using: Ububtu server 12.04/64 bits, Django 1.4, Pyrhon 2.7,
Thanks for your answers.
EDIT 1:
I fixed mi problem doing that following this tutorial
http://www.cristalab.com/tutoriales/crear-pdf-en-django-y-virtualenv-c110664l/
apt-get build-dep libqt4-gui libqt4-network libqt4-webkit
apt-get install openssl build-essential xorg git-core git-doc libssl-dev wkhtmltopdf
in settings
WKHTMLTOPDF_CMD = "/usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf"
But appered new error:
File "/home/user/.virtualenvs/app/local/lib/python2.7/site- packages/django/template/response.py", line 104, in render
self._set_content(self.rendered_content)
File "/home/user/.virtualenvs/app/local/lib/python2.7/site- packages/wkhtmltopdf/views.py", line 144, in rendered_content
footer_filename=footer_filename)
File "/home/user/.virtualenvs/app/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wkhtmltopdf/views.py", line 103, in convert_to_pdf
return wkhtmltopdf(pages=[filename], **cmd_options)
File "/home/user/.virtualenvs/app/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wkhtmltopdf/utils.py", line 92, in wkhtmltopdf
return check_output(ck_args, **ck_kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 544, in check_output
raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd, output=output)
CalledProcessError: Command '['/usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf', '--encoding', u'utf8', '--quiet', '/tmp/wkhtmltopdfE_THjv.html', '-']' returned non-zero exit status
Solved:
----------- July 14 -----------
0) Create a ~/tmp/ directory and change into it
cd ~
mkdir tmp
cd tmp
1) libwkhtmltox-0.11.0_rc1-amd64.tar.bz2 and wkhtmltopdf-0.11.0_rc1-static-amd64.tar.bz2 from http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/downloads/list
wget https://wkhtmltopdf.googlecode.com/files/libwkhtmltox-0.11.0_rc1-amd64.tar.bz2
wget https://wkhtmltopdf.googlecode.com/files/wkhtmltopdf-0.11.0_rc1-static-amd64.tar.bz2
2) Create subfolders and move the files into them:
mkdir libwkhtmltox
mkdir wkhtmltopdf
mv libwkhtmltox-0.11.0_rc1-amd64.tar.bz2 libwkhtmltox
mv wkhtmltopdf-0.11.0_rc1-static-amd64.tar.bz2 wkhtmltopdf
3) go in folders previously created and unzip the files.
cd libwkhtmltox
tar -xvjf libwkhtmltox-0.11.0_rc1-amd64.tar.bz2
cd ../wkhtmltopdf
tar -xvjf wkhtmltopdf-0.11.0_rc1-static-amd64.tar.bz2
4) access to ‘lib’. there we find a file named ‘libwkhtmltox.so’, then move it
cd ../libwkhtmltox/lib/
sudo cp libwkhtmltox.so /usr/local/lib/
5) access to include, there we find a folder named ‘wkhtmltox’, then move it
cd ../include/
sudo cp -avr wkhtmltox/ /usr/local/include/
6) after unzip the files we find the file “wkhtmltopdf-amd64”, move it.
cd ../../wkhtmltopdf/
sudo cp wkhtmltopdf-amd64 /usr/bin/
7) I was following this post. http://www.cristalab.com/tutoriales/crear-pdf-en-django-y-virtualenv-c110664l/
8) install
sudo aptitude install libfontconfig
sudo apt-get build-dep libqt4-gui libqt4-network libqt4-webkit
sudo apt-get install openssl build-essential xorg git-core git-doc libssl-dev wkhtmltopdf
9) I was following this post, https://github.com/incuna/django-wkhtmltopdf
10) later install the application
pip install django-wkhtmltopdf
Answer
I encountered this problem after a linux upgrade. I found the solution at this link: https://github.com/incuna/django-wkhtmltopdf/issues/75
In my case, the basic solution is find out where wkhtmltopdf is stored using which:
$ which wkhtmltopdf
/usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf
Then add the following line to settings.py:
WKHTMLTOPDF_CMD = '/usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf'
(i.e. the location returned by which)
N.B. If which wkhtmltopdf returns blank, you probably haven’t properly installed wkhtmltopdf. You can do so from https://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html