Also, since, you did

$ mkdir -p ~/bin
$ cp bin/* ~/bin/

Which moves all the compiled files to your ~/bin/ directory, you’ll have to add ~/bin to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH as well. So the LD_LIBRARY_PATH assignment in the ~.bash_profile will have to be:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/lib:$HOME/bin:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

You could optionally copy all the .so* files from ~/downloads/wkhtmltopdf/bin into your ~/lib/ directory and only copy the two executable files into your ~/bin/ directory. But there’s no real reason. I prefer to keep them all together and just add the ~/bin/ directory to the library path.

Thanks for the article!

$ ./configure -release -static -fast -exceptions -no-accessibility -no-stl -no-sql-ibase -no-sql-mysql -no-sql-odbc -no-sql-psql -no-sql-sqlite -no-sql-sqlite2 -no-qt3support -xmlpatterns -no-phonon -no-phonon-backend -webkit -no-scripttools -no-mmx -no-3dnow -no-sse -no-sse2 -qt-zlib -qt-libtiff -qt-libpng -qt-libmng -qt-libjpeg -graphicssystem raster -opensource -nomake tools -nomake examples -nomake demos -nomake docs -nomake translations -no-opengl -no-dbus -no-multimedia -openssl -no-declarative -largefile -rpath -no-nis -no-cups -no-iconv -no-pch -no-gtkstyle -no-nas-sound -no-sm -no-xshape -no-xinerama -no-xcursor -no-xfixes -no-xrandr -no-mitshm -no-xinput -no-xkb -no-glib -no-openvg -no-xsync -no-audio-backend -no-sse3 -no-ssse3 -no-sse4.1 -no-sse4.2 -no-avx -no-neon -confirm-license -prefix “../wkqt”

You’ll also have to change your LD_LIBRARY_PATH to not point to /usr/local/ as you will not have permission on this directory in the webfaction environment. So add

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

to your ~.bash_profile.

Restart. And you’re all set!

Every time I make install, it fails because it’s trying to install something in /usr/local/Trolltech/ which I don’t have permission to do on webfaction. How did you get this to work?