Recently, as I was working on Odoo, I came across a problem when I wanted to print a report. It was generating the HTML report just fine but when I wanted to download that report, it was having difficulty converting that report into PDF. Basically, the version of wkhtmltopdf library wasn’t compatible with the current setup.
I tried various solutions that I could find on the internet but none worked for me except the one I’m about to document here. Most of the solutions suggested that installing the wkhtmltopdf version 0.12.1, which is the recommended version from Odoo, would solve the issue but I wasn’t able to install it either as I was using Ubuntu 16.04 and some of the dependencies that were required to install the library weren’t supported.
Here’s what worked for me:
- First of all, remove the previous version of
wkhtmltopdfthat’s already installed on your system.
sudo apt-get remove wkhtmltopdf
sudo apt-get autoremove
- Then go to the official site of wkhtmltopdf and download the latest version from there.
wget https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/releases/download/0.12.4/wkhtmltox-0.12.4_linux-generic-amd64.tar.xz
After that, unzip the file using this command.
Now, copy the files from the extracted folder into the
/usr/bin/as this is the directory where Odoo looks forwkhtmltopdf.
sudo cp wkhtmltox/bin/wkhtmltoimage /usr/bin/
sudo cp wkhtmltox/bin/wkhtmltopdf /usr/bin/
- Restart your Odoo Server now. Everything should be working fine.
By following these steps, I was able to solve the problem at hand and hopefully, these will work for you too. Do let me know if it works.