wkhtmltopdf not found in image.

[soflane]

After digging a bit, I found that the package wkhtmltopdf is not available for Alpine version 3.16, and make the apk add wkhtmltopdf command in the dockerfile fail

Expected Behavior

Current Behavior

Steps to Reproduce

1. Run the container with the environment variable WKHTMLTOPDF=/usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf
2. try to export a page in bookstack

Environment

OS: Debian 11
CPU architecture: x86_64
How docker service was installed: Official docker script

Command used to create docker container (run/create/compose/screenshot)

Docker run

Docker logs

There is no output in the docker itself, but when trying to export a page to PDF in bookstack I get the error that the binary wkhtmltopdf is not found.

The exit status code '127' says something went wrong: stderr: "sh: /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf: not found " stdout: "" command: /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf --lowquality --page-size 'A4' --outline --print-media-type '/tmp/knp_snappy6322017b115a82.05430218.html' '/tmp/knp_snappy6322017b1166b6.69407541.pdf'.

Sorry if my bug report is not clear enough, don't hesitate to make me correct some things !

[j0nnymoe]

Why are you opening 2 issues about the same thing? Why not just edit/comment on your original issue you opened?

[soflane]

Why are you opening 2 issues about the same thing? Why not just edit/comment on your original issue you opened?

Sorry, I didn't see that I made two issues by missclick

[Roxedus]

We used to be able to install wkhtmltopdf using a older alpine version, but this way is now incompatible with the version we ship, as it has been dropped from the alpine repos due to being unmaintained.

[soflane]

So, is there something planned to work around ?

[Roxedus]

We are still discussing our options.

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[Risc-Skydoo]

+1
I would like that dependency back because de default PDR renderer is not very great

[jacojazz]

+1
wkhtmltopdf would be brill!

[Pafzedog]

Is there something planned about this ?
perhaps somebody found a workaround

[pwpbarney]

Not an elegant solution but I'm manually copying wkhtmltopdf into the container and installing the dependencies.

docker cp ./wkhtmltopdf bookstack:/usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf
docker exec -it bookstack /bin/bash
apk add --update --no-cache libgcc libstdc++ libx11 glib libxrender libxext libintl ttf-dejavu ttf-droid ttf-freefont ttf-liberation

Remember you need to do this every time you upgrade the container.

No idea what the security implications are so use at your own risk.

[drizuid]

Not an elegant solution but I'm manually copying wkhtmltopdf into the container and installing the dependencies.

docker cp ./wkhtmltopdf bookstack:/usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf
docker exec -it bookstack /bin/bash
apk add --update --no-cache libgcc libstdc++ libx11 glib libxrender libxext libintl ttf-dejavu ttf-droid ttf-freefont ttf-liberation

Remember you need to do this every time you upgrade the container.

No idea what the security implications are so use at your own risk.

you don't need to do this every time, you can make it automatically persistent: https://docs.linuxserver.io/general/container-customization

good work-around!

[kmpm]

I made a different workaround by using weasyprint, which is included in alpine, and a proxy script and installing it using container customization.
https://gist.github.com/kmpm/c254558fcb0608346f49946a53cd8c09