Unable to install wkhtmltopdf with patched qt in ubuntu 16.04

I've managed to successfully install wkhtmltopdf-amd64 on my shared hosting account without root access.

Here's what i did:

Downloaded the relevant static binary v0.10.0 from here: http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/downloads/list

EDIT: The above has moved to here

via ssh on my shared host typed the following:

$ wget {relavant url to binary from link above}
$ tar -xvf {filename of above wget'd file}

you'll then have the binary on your host and will be able to run it regardless of if its in the /usr/bin/ folder or not. (or at least i was able to)

To test:

$ ./wkhtmltopdf-amd64 http://www.example.com example.pdf

• Note remember that if you're in the folder in which the executable is, you should probably preface it with ./ just to be sure.

Worked for me anyway

First check out the source

 git clone git://gitorious.org/~antialize/qt/antializes-qt.git wkhtmltopdf-qt
 cd wkhtmltopdf-qt
 git checkout 4.8.4
 QTDIR=. ./bin/syncqt

Qt must be configured, a good set of configuration options for qt can found by looking at the output of

cat ../wkhtmltopdf/static_qt_conf_base ../wkhtmltopdf/static_qt_conf_linux | sed -re 's/#.*//'
cd wkhtmltopdf-qt
./configure -nomake tools,examples,demos,docs,translations -opensource -prefix "../wkqt"

And Qt compiled and installed (this will take a while)

make -j3 && make install
cd ..

You must now run qmake in the wkhtmltopdf folder.

cd wkhtmltopdf
../wkqt/bin/qmake

Archived Google Code link.