Where to obtain xhtml2pdf?

[Massimo]

On recent Linux distributions, where do I get the required Python library xhtml2pdf from?

The link ​http://www.xhtml2pdf.com/ is forwarding to ​https://www.sejda.com/html-to-pdf today. Searching the packages on Gentoo I find media-gfx/wkhtmltopdf (​https://wkhtmltopdf.org/) which is something different I guess.

2019-11-04 11:29:07,289 Trac[loader] DEBUG: Skipping "TracWikiPrintPlugin 2.0.0.dev0": DistributionNotFound: The 'xhtml2pdf' distribution was not found and is required by TracWikiPrintPlugin

[Ryan J Ollos]

Development of xhtml2pdf is on ​GitHub. You can use pip install xhtml2pdf. If you want to install through the OS package manager, you'll need to consult the community for xhtml2pdf or the OS.

[Massimo]

Is it possible to use pip install as trac user only to install into ~trac/ home, for not polluting the root installation?

I tried by

 pip install --user xhtml2pdf

and got

$ tree ~trac/.local/lib64/ -L 3
/mnt/data/trac/.local/lib64/
└── python3.6
    └── site-packages
        ├── PIL
        ├── Pillow-6.2.1.dist-info
        ├── PyPDF2
        ├── PyPDF2-1.26.0-py3.6.egg-info
        ├── reportlab
        ├── reportlab-3.5.32.dist-info
        ├── xhtml2pdf
        └── xhtml2pdf-0.2.3-py3.6.egg-info

But I still get

2019-11-06 11:22:22,359 Trac[loader] DEBUG: Skipping "TracWikiPrintPlugin 2.0.0.dev0": DistributionNotFound: The 'xhtml2pdf' distribution was not found and is required by TracWikiPrintPlugin

The uwsgi workers are running as user trac and should be able to find the python library at $HOME.

[Ryan J Ollos]

I don't have any experience installing to the user install directory. You might ask on the ​MailingList.

For not polluting the root installation, virtual environments are a good choice.

[Massimo]

I got it solved by adding this line to the uwsgi ini file:

pythonpath = /mnt/data/trac/.local/lib64/python2.7/site-packages