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Beware - it took me some time to figure out that trying to run xvfb was the wrong way - instead you have to run xvfb-run. This also went quite well for me, no problems.ДЄfter completing this I was able to run wkhtmltopdf.

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I installed it with apt-get install xvfb. Getting around this was also quite simple (if one does not care for the symbolic links). This is due to the fact that we need to run wkhtmltopdf headless on a 'virtual' x server.

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So this was the easy part for me :) (btw, you don't have to care for symbolic links or wrappers as many tutorials tell you - I spent hours trying to figure out how to do that part, in the end I gave it up and everything works well though)ДЄfter the install I got the quite famous Cannot connect to X server error. I was lucky that my server already had all the predispositions to install wkhtmltopdf. I installed it with apt-get using PuTTy, went quite well.

For installing the non-static version first of all you have to have root access to the server, that's obvious. I suspect that there were problems with the version - apparently there is a difference between versions for different OS and processors, maybe I have the vrong version. The static binary did not work for me for some reason I can't explain. It was not so easy for me as the guys said in their comments (one of the reasons might be that I am not too familiar with Linux). If complex documents are in game - do not spend the time (like I did) - go straight to wkhtmltopdf.Д«eware - the wkhtmltopdf installation is tricky. No chance to get them to produce fair results on complex docs with design elements, css, multiple overlapping images etc.

All the other packages are really only suitable if you have a rather simply document with one basic table etc. Still, some minor modifications to the CSS had to be made, however, it worked really well when it comes to rendering the content. Wkthmltopdf is really THE ONLY solution that worked for me that could produce what I call acceptable results. Not really an answer but for the question above, but I'll try to provide some of my experience, maybe it will help someone somwhere in the future.

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