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

#> wkhtmltopdf wkhtmltopdf: error while loading shared libraries: libXrender.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I noticed the lib is indeed in the /usr/lib folder but not the /lib folder. Does it matter which one of these it is in? Is there any way to get it to recognize it?

#> ls -l /usr/lib/libXrender.so* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Feb 17 07:20 /usr/lib/libXrender.so -> libXrender.so.1.3.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Feb 17 07:20 /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 -> libXrender.so.1.3.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 39184 Jan 29 2010 /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1.3.0 #> ls -l /lib/libXrender.so* ls: cannot access /lib/libXrender.so*: No such file or directory

I also checked dependencies of the lib

# ldd /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00002b9cb5afd000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00002b9cb5e04000) libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0x00002b9cb6143000) libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x00002b9cb6347000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00002b9cb654d000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000555555554000)

This is running on an EngineYard gentoo server

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  • For the googler: It's now best to install wkhtmltopdf by using the provided OS package, e.g. the deb package, which automatically installs libXrender as well as other needed dependencies too: github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/releases/tag/0.12.5 Commented Jan 3, 2022 at 9:32

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The Unix packages x11-libs/libXext and x11-libs/libXrender are dependencies

Gentoo:

sudo emerge libXext libXrender

PDFkit wiki also explains in more detail how to get wkhtmltopdf working on engine yard. PDFkit wiki

Debian or Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install libxrender1
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That post had instructions, but I noticed it was referencing the i386 version so I changed to referencing the amd64 and it worked ... so I updated the wiki to include instructions for 64bit instance.
This worked for me! However, on Debian I also had to run sudo apt-get install libext6.
On Debian 11, I had to run sudo apt-get install libxrender1 libxext-dev
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I had the same, issue on Debian Squeeze, amd64. Installing libxrender1 solved the issue for me.

sudo apt-get install libxrender1
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I need also do after:

sudo apt-get install libfontconfig1
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Ran into this today on a RHEL7 machine running the static version of wkhtmltopdf. Solution was to install a few dependencies: 

yum install libXrender libXext fontconfig
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After doing this on mine it showed Black boxes instead of text. I had to install these two packages to make the text work: xorg-x11-font-utils and xorg-x11-fonts-Type1
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With Ubuntu 16 (from a fresh Docker install):

apt install -y libxrender1 libxext6
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If your system is 64 bits, and your software requires 32 bits libs, you need to add the flag "i386",

for example on ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install libxrender1:i386
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I was having the exact same problem! The solution, to me, was to install the 64bit version of wkhtmltoimage.

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I had this issue after rebuilding one of my containers, while before everything was working fine. All the answers I found online didn't work for me, so here's how I troubleshooted and resolved:

1. Check if all dependencies are there:

ldd path/to/your/binary/file/wkhtmltopdf-amd64

Here's what I got from that

linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007ffded169000) libXrender.so.1 => not found libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x00007f117bab0000) libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00007f117b806000) libXext.so.6 => not found libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6 (0x00007f117b4cc000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f117b2b2000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f117b0ae000) librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f117aea6000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f117ac89000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f117a907000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f117a5fe000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f117a3e8000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f117a01e000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f117bcf3000) libexpat.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.1 (0x00007f1179df5000) libpng12.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng12.so.0 (0x00007f1179bd0000) libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007f11799ae000) libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXau.so.6 (0x00007f11797aa000) libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x00007f11795a4000)

Where I got "not found" means the dependencies were missing

2. apt update and install

Update your apt, as it's likely it won't find the libraries needed to install

apt-get update

Now I installed the missing dependencies that had the "not found" in the results above. Take note that for the libxrender and libxext I had to install libxrender-dev and libxext-dev.

apt-get install -y libxrender-dev libxext-dev

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I had this same issue on running a Rails 5.2 application on an Ubuntu 18.04 production server, the issue was that there were missing dependencies for libXrender on the server

Here's how I solved it:

Run the command below to search for the missing dependencies:

sudo apt-cache search libXrender

This will display the output below:

libxrender-dev - X Rendering Extension client library (development files) libxrender1 - X Rendering Extension client library libreoffice - office productivity suite (metapackage)

If you're running on a production server, simply install libxrender1 only (for rendering PDFs):

sudo apt-get install libxrender1

Also, if possible run upgrades for outdated libraries on your server:

sudo apt upgrade

Once all these have been completed, simply restart your application server (If your application server is puma and if your setup systemd for the server):

sudo systemctl restart puma
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sudo apt-get install xvfb

to install the dependency package.

Update the node-modules wkhtmltopdf index.js

wkhtmltopdf.command = 'wkhtmltopdf'; to 'wkhtmltopdf.command = 'xvfb-run wkhtmltopdf';'
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What worked for me (for future google searchs), on an Amazon Linux 2018:03

yum localinstall -y https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/8/AppStream/x86_64/os/Packages/libpng15-1.5.30-7.el8.x86_64.rpm yum localinstall -y https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/packaging/releases/download/0.12.6-1/wkhtmltox-0.12.6-1.amazonlinux2.x86_64.rpm
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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 <executable> | 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.

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