I need SQLite minimum version 3.8 to support a MediaWiki install on Amazon EC2. Amazon Linux is based on CentOS and the latest version available in the yum repository is SQLite 3.7.17.
The downloads available from sqlite.org don't include 64-bit Linux. There is a GitHub repository that has a prebuilt 64-bit version, however it's only the command line version. I put it at /usr/bin:
$ which sqlite3
/usr/bin/sqlite3
$ sqlite3 --version
sqlite3: /lib64/libtinfo.so.5: no version information available (required by sqlite3)
3.26.0 2018-12-01 12:34:55 bf8c1b2b7a5960c282e543b9c293686dccff272512d08865f4600fb58238b4f9
But MediaWiki still complains I have SQLite 3.7.17 installed. When I test it I get:
$ cat x.php
<?php
print_r(SQLite3::version());
?>
Run it:
$ php7 x.php
Array
(
[versionString] => 3.7.17
[versionNumber] => 3007017
)
I am guessing this is because of these libraries:
$ sudo find / -name "libsqlite*"
/usr/lib64/libsqlite3.so.0
/usr/lib64/libsqlite3.so.0.8.6
How can I download/rebuild or otherwise install a later version of these SQLite libraries?
The easiest option I found was to build it myself. Tested on Amazon Linux release 2 (Karoo).
Download the latest source code with the configure script from here. Currently this is:
curl https://www.sqlite.org/2020/sqlite-autoconf-3320300.tar.gz | tar xzf -
Go into the created directory and create the Makefile with our system dependant options:
cd ./sqlite-autoconf-3320300 && ./configure
Build the binary
make
Install it
sudo make install
Clean up
cd .. && rm -r ./sqlite-autoconf-3320300
Note: It's far from ideal to do this without a proper RPM package. If you update sqlite through yum, you will overwrite you manually built version.
Adding on to #halbgut answer, with some changes:
Download the latest source code with the configure script from here. Currently this is:
curl https://www.sqlite.org/2020/sqlite-autoconf-3320300.tar.gz | tar xzf -
Go into the created directory and create the Makefile with our system dependent options:
cd ./sqlite-autoconf-3320300 && ./configure
Build the binary
make
Install it
sudo make install
Now, you have created the sqlite3 file. You need to replace them everywhere you find the file sqlite3.
To find all these places - run the following command:
whereis sqlite3
sqlite3: /usr/bin/sqlite3 /usr/local/bin/sqlite3 /usr/include/sqlite3.h /opt/c9/bin/sqlite3 /usr/share/man/man1/sqlite3.1.gz
Now within the sqlite source folder ./sqlite-autoconf-3320300, find the sqlite3, sqlite3.h files and replace with the following cp command
sudo cp sqlite-autoconf-3320300/sqlite3 /usr/local/bin/sqlite3
sudo cp sqlite-autoconf-3320300/sqlite3 /usr/local/bin/sqlite3
sudo cp sqlite-autoconf-3320300/sqlite3 /opt/c9/bin/sqlite3 {I am using c9, hence this file, figure out what file is in the opt/ dir)
sudo cp sqlite-autoconf-3320300/sqlite3.h /usr/include/sqlite3.h
Once done, you would have upgraded both env and python-env. Now you need to just define the path to it. For it, use the local/lib in usr.
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/lib"
Now you should have this :
$ python -c "import sqlite3; print(sqlite3.sqlite_version)"
3.23.3
$ sqlite3 --version
3.32.3
If you just need the sqlite3 binary, the SQLite amalgamation also works perfectly on Amazon Linux 2. For SQLite 33.9.04 (or others from the SQLite Download section):
wget "https://www.sqlite.org/2022/sqlite-amalgamation-3390400.zip"
unzip "sqlite-amalgamation-3390400.zip"
cd "sqlite-amalgamation-3390400"
gcc shell.c sqlite3.c -lpthread -ldl -lm -o sqlite3
And then use it as you would any other software compiled from source:
ln -n ./sqlite3 ${wherever}/sqlite3
export PATH="${wherever}:$PATH"
SQLite docs give a good explanation of further options if you need them.
Get the latest sqlite3 download link from https://www.sqlite.org/download.html
and update the link given in the WGET bash command example shown below.
Example:
wget https://www.sqlite.org/2022/sqlite-tools-linux-x86-3400000.zip
unzip sqlite-tools*.zip
cd sqlite-tools*
sudo cp sql* /usr/local/bin/ # Usually this directory is empty, so no need to worry about overwriting files
cd ~
sudo yum update -y
sudo amazon-linux-extras install epel -y
sudo yum install glibc.i686 -y
sqlite3 --version
I have been using wkthmltopdf to convert html to pdf documents on-the-fly on my linux web server. The program originally needed X11 or similar X server to run correctly, but through many requests by developers to have this run on servers without GUI, I am pretty sure it runs a virtual X server in the static version. I have been using the static (stand-alone) version of the program and it works great! I would put the executable file in a folder, and run:
./wkhtmltopdf file1.html file2.pdf
However I would like to install this program system-wide. I used the apt-get install wkhtmltopdf (just installed yesterday) and since I am running on a 64 bit system, I also needed apt-get install ia32-libs. After installation I can find the version like this:
wkhtmltopdf --version
output:
Name:
wkhtmltopdf 0.9.9
License:
Copyright (C) 2008,2009 Wkhtmltopdf Authors.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO
WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Authors:
Written by Jakob Truelsen. Patches by Mário Silva, Benoit Garret and Emmanuel
Bouthenot.
Now when I try to run the program installed via aptitude, I get the following error:
wkhtmltopdf: cannot connect to X server
Does anyone know how I can fix this? I guess this version is missing a virtual X server or something.
or try this (from http://drupal.org/node/870058)
Download wkhtmltopdf. Or better install it with a package manager:
sudo apt-get install wkhtmltopdf
Extract it and move it to /usr/local/bin/
Rename it to wkhtmltopdf so that now you have an executable at /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf
Set permissions: sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf
Install required support packages.
sudo apt-get install openssl build-essential xorg libssl-dev
Check to see if it works: run
/usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf http://www.google.com test.pdf
If it works, then you are done. If you get the error "Cannot connect to X server" then continue to number 7.
We need to run it headless on a 'virtual' x server. We will do this with a package called xvfb.
sudo apt-get install xvfb
We need to write a little shell script to wrap wkhtmltopdf in xvfb. Make a file called wkhtmltopdf.sh and add the following:
xvfb-run -a -s "-screen 0 640x480x16" wkhtmltopdf "$#"
Move this shell script to /usr/local/bin, and set permissions:
sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf.sh
Check to see if it works once again: run
/usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf.sh http://www.google.com test.pdf
Note that http://www.google.com may throw an error like "A finished ResourceObject received a loading finished signal. This might be an indication of an iframe taking to long to load." You may want to test with a simpler page like http://www.example.com.
This solved the issue for me:
sudo apt-get install xvfb
xvfb-run --server-args="-screen 0, 1024x768x24" wkhtmltopdf file1.html file2.pdf
I tried to do sudo apt-get install wkhtmltopdf but without any success.
Instead I recommend you try:
Download the latest executable (.11 rc1) :
wget https://wkhtmltopdf.googlecode.com/files/wkhtmltopdf-0.11.0_rc1-static-i386.tar.bz2
uncompress it :
tar -vxf wkhtmltopdf-0.11.0_rc1-static-i386.tar.bz2
rename it :
mv wkhtmltopdf-i386 wkhtmltopdf
chmod it to executable :
chmod a+x wkhtmltopdf
place it into /usr/bin :
sudo mv wkhtmltopdf /usr/bin
Just made it:
1- To download wkhtmltopdf dependencies
# apt-get install wkhtmltopdf
2- Download from source
# wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/wkhtmltopdf/xxx.deb
# dpkg -i xxx.deb
3- Try
# wkhtmltopdf http://google.com google.pdf
Its working fine
It works!
I found method to resolve this problem without fake X server.
In newest version of wkhtmltopdf dont need X server for work, but it no into official linux repositories.
Solution for Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS (trusty) i386
$ sudo apt-get install xfonts-75dpi
$ wget http://download.gna.org/wkhtmltopdf/0.12/0.12.2/wkhtmltox-0.12.2_linux-trusty-i386.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox-0.12.2_linux-trusty-i386.deb
$ wkhtmltopdf http://www.google.com test.pdf
Solution for Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS (trusty) amd64
$ sudo apt-get install xfonts-75dpi
$ wget http://download.gna.org/wkhtmltopdf/0.12/0.12.2/wkhtmltox-0.12.2_linux-trusty-amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox-0.12.2_linux-trusty-amd64.deb
$ wkhtmltopdf http://www.google.com test.pdf
User felixhummel got very good solution, but repository with utilite has changed.
Expanding on Timothy's answer...
If you're a web developer looking to use wkhtmltopdf as part of your web app, you can simply install it into your /usr/bin/ folder like so:
cd /usr/bin/
curl -C - -O http://wkhtmltopdf.googlecode.com/files/wkhtmltopdf-0.11.0_rc1-static-i386.tar.bz2
tar -xvjf wkhtmltopdf-0.11.0_rc1-static-i386.tar.bz2
mv wkhtmltopdf-i386 wkhtmltopdf
You can now run it anywhere using wkhtmltopdf.
I personally use the Snappy library in PHP. Here is an example of how easy it is to create a PDF:
<?php
// Create new PDF
$pdf = new \Knp\Snappy\Pdf('wkhtmltopdf');
// Set output header
header('Content-Type: application/pdf');
// Generate PDF from HTML
echo $pdf->getOutputFromHtml('<h1>Title</h1><p>Your content goes here.</p>');
Update to latest wkhtmltopdf version from SourceForge (0.12 as of this writing). It does not need an X Server to run.
Example for Ubuntu 14.04:
$ cd /tmp/
$ wget -q http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/wkhtmltopdf/0.12.2.1/wkhtmltox-0.12.2.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb
$ dpkg -x wkhtmltox-0.12.2.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb foo
$ echo '<p>hi</p>' | ./foo/usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf - /tmp/hi.pdf
Loading pages (1/6)
Counting pages (2/6)
Resolving links (4/6)
Loading headers and footers (5/6)
Printing pages (6/6)
Done
$ head -n3 /tmp/hi.pdf
%PDF-1.4
1 0 obj
<<
for 14.04.1-Ubuntu https://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html
wget https://downloads.wkhtmltopdf.org/0.12/0.12.4/wkhtmltox-0.12.4_linux-generic-amd64.tar.xz -O mktemp.tar.xz
tar xf mktemp.tar.xz
sudo cp wkhtmltox/bin/wkhtmltopdf /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf
rm mktemp.tar.xz
rm wkhtmltox -rf
apt-get update
apt-get install -y libxrender1 libxtst6 libxi6
wkhtmltopdf http://www.google.com test.pdf
sudo -i
apt-get install wkhtmltopdf xvfb libicu48
mv /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf-origin
touch /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf && chmod +x /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf && cat > /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf << END
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/xvfb-run -a -s "-screen 0 1024x768x24" /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf-origin "\$#"
END
Problem is probably in old version of wkhtmltopdf - version 0.9 from distribution repository require running X server, but current version - 0.12.2.1 doesnt require it - can run headless.
Download package for your distribution from http://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html and install it - for Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install xfonts-75dpi
sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox-0.12.2.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb
wkhtmltopdf > 0.11 doesn't have this X-server issue.
So installing 0.12.2.1 on a linux server.
At first install xvfb server:
sudo apt-get install xvfb
Get needed version of wkhtmltopdf from http://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html
Install wkhtmltopdf:
sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox-0.12.2.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb
or install with wget
URL='http://download.gna.org/wkhtmltopdf/0.12/0.12.2.1/wkhtmltox-0.12.2.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb'; FILE=`mktemp`; wget "$URL" -qO $FILE && sudo dpkg -i $FILE; rm $FILE
Install dependency (if needed):
sudo apt-get -f install
Create symblic link in /usr/local/bin/:
echo 'exec xvfb-run -a -s "-screen 0 640x480x16" wkhtmltopdf "$#"' | sudo tee /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf.sh >/dev/null
sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf.sh
Now try below and it should work,
/usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf http://www.google.com test.pdf
I just figured out that I can simply move the static executable to the /usr/bin/ directory and execute it from anywhere.
solution for Centos7:
yum -y install xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi \
xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 \
&& rpm -Uvh http://download.gna.org/wkhtmltopdf/0.12/0.12.2.1/wkhtmltox-0.12.2.1_linux-centos7-amd64.rpm
We run into this problem inside docker containers and the above install has wkhtmltopdf with patched QT
It is recommended to use at least 0.12.2.1.
Starting from wkhtmltopdf >= 0.12.2 it doesn't require X server or emulation anymore. You can download new version from http://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html
I did follow the instructions here and made wkhtmltopdf work for me but I would like to offer a bit of perspective which I discovered while doing my own little dance with wkhtmltopdf - xvfb.
This is important because the same reason that causes it to throw the infamous cannot connect to X server error is also causing it to run with sever limitations even if you do provide it a X server. These limitations include not being able to take multiple input sources, set header and footers, etc (check the Reduced Functionality section of the manual).
wkhtmltox by itself doesn't require a X11, however it's making use of QT libraries which do. In newever versions of wkthmltox developers made a patch for QT which allows it to run with a X11.
Currently some versions are built against patched QT and some are not. You can check your version by running wkhtmltopds --version. There should be a line at the end saying Compiled against wkhtmltopdf patched qt.
So, to conclude, if you install and use a version that uses the patched libraries it should work on a linux server without the xvfb server, as I can confirm.
Pay attention: your file could be wkhtmltopdf.sh or wkhtmltopdf, check it on second step
You must copy it into directory : /usr/local/bin, make sur it's executable and add symlink of wkhtmltopdf.sh like :
1- the command :
sudo apt-get install wkhtmltopdf
2 - insert the binary in directory /usr/bin so the browser can't have permission to execute in this directory.
You must copy the wkhtmltopdf.sh to directory /usr/local/bin cause the browser have permission in this directory like:
sudo cp /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf.sh /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf.sh
3 - After make sur the binary have permission of execution like :
sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf.sh
4 - so now you can test, it's work like:
/usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf.sh http://www.google.com google.pdf
it make download the pdf in the current directory in your terminal
5 - Optional
now you can add symlink in your directory /usr/local/bin like
ln -s /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf.sh /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf
Just tell the Qt backend to not use X:
QT_QPA_PLATFORM=offscreen wkhtmltopdf <input> <outfile.pdf>
Download file from this link
Extract it and move executable file(/wkhtmltox/bin/wkhtmltopdf) to /usr/bin/
Rename it to wkhtmltopdf if current name is not wkhtmltopdf. So that now you have an executable at /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf
Set permissions: sudo chmod a+x /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf
Install required support packages. sudo apt-get install openssl build-essential xorg libssl-dev
Now, check with wkhtmltopdf http://www.google.com test.pdf
hint: detail information from this link
Just install a version 0.12.4 or higher. This seems to solve the problem.
See How can I install the latest wkhtmltopdf on Ubuntu 16.04?.
If you config wkhtmltopdf for Rails or Somethings in Centos, you can follow these step bellow:
Go to https://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html and copied the link of rpm file.
In centos server bash.
wget link_of_wkhtmltopdf_rpm.rpm
rpm -ivh link_of_wkhtmltopdf_rpm.rpm
which wkhtmltopdf
=> You will get path of wkhtmltopdf.
Setup for wicked_pdf or pdfkit with path in step 4.
This is sample config with wickedpdf. config/initializers/wicked_pdf.rb
if Rails.env != "production"
path = %x[which wkhtmltopdf].gsub(/\n/, "")
else
path = "path_of_wkhtmltopdf_in_step_4"
end
WickedPdf.config = { exe_path: path }
Restart server.
DONE.
For 64-bit Use:
wget http://wkhtmltopdf.googlecode.com/files/wkhtmltopdf-0.9.9-static-amd64.tar.bz2
tar xvjf wkhtmltopdf-0.9.9-static-amd64.tar.bz2
sudo mv wkhtmltopdf-amd64 /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf
I'm trying to allow my heroku wordpress install to be able to write files heroku. To do this, I'm trying to install zlib. Fortunately, I got referred to a section of the tutorial on this, but I'm having some trouble. The tutorial tells me to run the following in heroku bash :
heroku run bash
export PS1="\u#\h \w> "
mkdir tmp
cd tmp
git clone https://github.com/php/php-src.git -b PHP-5.3
cd php-src
cd ext/zlib
/app/php/bin/phpize
./configure –with-php-config=/app/php/bin/php-config
make
cd modules
scp zlib.so user#host:~/destination
exit
I'm stuck at
cd ext/zlib
/app/php/bin/phpize
./configure –with-php-config=/app/php/bin/php-config
I'm presuming he means to cd to /ext/zlib/app/php/bin/phpize
I can cd all the way to /bin, but I can't seem to cd to phpize. if I type "dir", I do see something called phpize in the terminal.
What would I need to run to execute the command above? Knowing that I'm currently on the directory /ext/zlib/app/php/bin
phpize is a utility program. Install php-devel
Is there any documentation about V8JS?
Do I need only standard PHP or some extensions to use V8JS?
I'll be very thankful for any information about V8JS in PHP.
Requirements
PHP 5.3.3+ and V8 library and headers installed in proper paths.
Install
I've found this docs on the v8js class.
The docs out there aren't complete or are not updated. I'm actually currently in the process of doing v8JS myself and it took me a few days to get the back end libs sorted out. First off, you must know that you can't do this is you have python < 2.7
Here is my install notes that I'm putting together for our dev vagrant boxes running centos 7.
cd /tmp
# Install depot_tools first (needed for source checkout)
git clone https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/tools/depot_tools.git
export PATH=`pwd`/depot_tools:"$PATH"
# Download v8
fetch v8
cd v8
# Build (disable snapshots for V8 > 4.4.9.1)
make native library=shared snapshot=off -j8
# Install to /usr
sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib /usr/include
sudo cp out/native/lib.target/lib*.so /usr/lib64/
sudo cp -R include/* /usr/include
echo -e "create /usr/lib64/libv8_libplatform.a\naddlib out/native/obj.target/tools/gyp/libv8_libplatform.a\nsave\nend" | sudo ar -M
cd /usr/lib64
sudo chrpath -r '$ORIGIN' libv8.so
========================
Compile php-v8js itself
========================
cd /tmp
git clone -b master https://github.com/phpv8/v8js.git
cd v8js
phpize
./configure
make
make test
sudo make install
sudo service httpd restart
A note on the line make native library=shared snapshot=off -j8. I had the compile stop on me a couple times, I just restarted it. I'm not sure why it stopped, but it restarted just fine and completed just fine.
After that is done, you need to create the php extension file /etc/php.d/v8js.ini with the following content
; Enable v8js extension module
extension=v8js.so
Run the following to make sure it is installed correctly
php -r "phpinfo();" | grep v8js
If you get output back and no errors you're good to go.
I am using a Linux Server and am trying to install Pdftk, but I am problems trying to figure out what exactly to do.
I found the following documentation on how to install it, but they refer mostly to installing it on the local Windows machine.
They are:
http://www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2009/07/29/installing-pdftk-php/
http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/#packages
Can someone help me unserstand exactly what files I need to place where on my server so I can refer to pdftk?
Pdftk is a version of iText which has been converted from Java to c++ and rebuilt with a command-line bridge for easy access from PHP applications.
To build pdftk on Redhat / CentOS please follow the below instructions.
ssh [server to install pdftk on]
Now that we are in the server we need to create the directories to store pdftk.
cd /
sudo mkdir extra
cd extra
sudo mkdir src
cd src
sudo wget http://www.pdfhacks.com/pdftk/pdftk-1.41.tar.gz
sudo tar zxvf pdftk-1.41.tar.gz
cd pdftk-1.41/pdftk
Now we need to install the gcj libraries.
sudo yum install java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-devel.i386
The gcc-c++ library doesn't get installed with the gcj package so we will install it now, so we don't get an error halfway through the compile process.
sudo yum install gcc-c++
If you compile the application right now you will receive a warning that tmpnam is dangerous to use and you should use mkstemp.
sudo vi report.cc
Run this from inside VI to do a search and replace for the tmpnam method.
:%s/tmpnam(/mkstemp(/g
Press escape and save the changes with
:wq!
Now that we have all the packages installed, we are going to start compiling pdftk-1.41
from /extra/src/pdftk-1.41/pdftk run the following command
sudo make -f Makefile.RedHat
This will kick off the build process for compiling and converting the java file to c++. This could take SEVERAL minutes to convert iText to c++. Go grab yourself a margarita from our new margarita machine in the break room :).
Now with the pdftk file created we will want to copy it to the /bin directory so that we can run it from anywhere.
sudo cp pdftk /usr/local/bin
Let's make sure the build was successful and run
pdftk --version
As of 2020, things are different now. CentOS 6 is stepping out and pdftk can only support CentOS 5/6. GCJ on CentOS 7 is removed, so installing from source is not easy too. But we have docker now:
FROM centos:centos6
RUN yum install -y https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/pdftk-2.02-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
Then build with docker build . -t pdftk and run as:
docker run -it --rm -v $PWD:/data --workdir /data pdftk pdftk ./input.pdf output ./output.pdf
The example above can repair a pdf file missing a dozen of KB of data if you are lucky.
As mentioned by #rsc, pdftk-java will be available for Rocky Linux, but currently (2021.10.28), still cannot install it via yum.
Fortunately, there is a built command for x86_64 GNU/Linux systems, which does not require any runtime dependencies. So we can use it as follows
# the version number might be updated, check https://gitlab.com/pdftk-java/pdftk
wget https://gitlab.com/pdftk-java/pdftk/-/jobs/1527259632/artifacts/raw/build/native-image/pdftk
chmod +x pdftk
./pdftk ...
It works well in the server with the following system info,
$ lsb_release -a
LSB Version: :core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch
Distributor ID: Rocky
Description: Rocky Linux release 8.4 (Green Obsidian)
Release: 8.4
Codename: GreenObsidian
As of 2021, there is pdftk-java: A port of the original GCJ-based PDFtk to Java, which is currently on the way to the repositories for Fedora 33+ and EPEL 7+ (latter for CentOS, RHEL or Rocky), allowing yum install pdftk-java to succeed (once the package reached the stable repositories).
Edit: The pdftk-java package is in the stable repositories since yesterday, 2021-10-29.