Rails: Error running wkhtmltopdf — (error while loading shared libraries)

Question

When my app runs (or when I run from commandline) the wkhtmltopdf command I get the following error: (showing it from command line)

#> wkhtmltopdf 
wkhtmltopd         


        

Answer 1

Note that there is an executable version of wkhtmltopdf distributed in a UPX compressed format, ldd and file will both report that this file is statically linked even though the payload requires shared libraries.

To check try

strings | fgrep UPX

If you see any "UPX" id strings then install upx and use "upx -d" on a copy of the file (as upx works in place) and then run ldd on the uncompressed file.