wkhtmltopdf not found - Golang Ubuntu

Question

After trying lot of solutions for this error, I am posting this issue here. I have written a method which converts html to pdf and returns pdf bytes as output.

import (
"bytes"
"github.com/SebastiaanKlippert/go-wkhtmltopdf" 
)

func HtmlToPdf(htmlData *string) ([]byte, error) {
pdfg, err := wkhtmltopdf.NewPDFGenerator()
if err != nil {
    return nil, err
}
pdfg.AddPage(wkhtmltopdf.NewPageReader(bytes.NewReader([]byte(*htmlData))))
//nolint: gomnd
pdfg.Dpi.Set(600)
jb, err := pdfg.ToJSON()
if err != nil {
    return nil, err
}
pdfgFromJSON, err := wkhtmltopdf.NewPDFGeneratorFromJSON(bytes.NewReader(jb))
if err != nil {
    return nil, err
}

err = pdfgFromJSON.Create()
if err != nil {
    return nil, err
}
pdfBytes := pdfgFromJSON.Bytes()

return pdfBytes, nil }

Calling this method returns errorwkhtmltopdf not foundI have tried the following solutions

1. which wkhtmltopdf /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf and then setting the WKHTMLTOPDF_PATH: /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf in environment section of my code

2. Using setPath at the top of HtmlToPdf Method like

   wkhtmltopdf.SetPath("/usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf")

   In this case the error changes to fork/exec /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf: no such file or directory

   3. Also tried after moving the wkhtml files to /usr/local/go/bin/ and using path /usr/local/go/bin/wkhtmltopdf

   4. Converting any url to pdf using command line also works fine.

   Note : Hitting wkhtmltopdf --version in terminal gives wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (with patched qt) and package is installed using go get github.com/SebastiaanKlippert/go-wkhtmltopdf

   Any other solutions?

Answer 1

hello in my case u should install wkhtmltopdf ,but if u are using MacOS so just install on terminal

brew install wkhtmltopdf

and make sure path directory same like you installed wkhtmltopdf