Hi @DrSchnagels
Great to know that you found the guide useful. As for the PDF generation issue, this has been reported in the past as well.
Can you confirm what version of wkhtmltopdf have you installed by running;
wkhtmltopdf --version
Also, if possible share a screenshot of a sample PDF file that you’re facing issues with.
this is my output:
Welcome to Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.15.39-3-pve x86_64)
wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6
Hi!
Can you help me understand why there is two times a
“sudo bench setup production [frappe-user]”
in 7.3 and 7.5 ?
Thanks!
This is just to make sure that the NGINX config file is created correctly. Sometimes the NGINX config doesn’t get written correctly the first time so running the command twice ensure that there are no issues.
After some research I got the PDF creation working flawlessly. I found out that the installed version of wkhtmltopdf is the NON-qt-patched version. But the qt-patched version is needed in order to generate correct PDF files from the document preview.
The “sudo apt-get wkhtmltopdf” for Ubuntu 22.04 variant installs the non-qt-patched version. This one does not support the parameter " --disable-smart-shrinking".
Therefor all PDF files are truncated, shrunk, at the edges, even removing logos or text.
The preview is correct, the created pdf file is mistakenly shrunken / cut.
I solved it with these commands:
remove bad version
sudo apt-get remove wkhtmltopdf
download the latest, qt-patched version from the official github
visit wkhtmltopdf website to see for other distros
wget https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/packaging/releases/download/0.12.6.1-2/wkhtmltox_0.12.6.1-2.jammy_amd64.deb
install correct version with qt-patched and check if it works
sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox_0.12.6.1-2.jammy_amd64.deb
vvv@gggg:~$ wkhtmltopdf -V
wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6.1 (with patched qt)
After this PDF files are correctly generated.
BTW: I tried to do “sudo bench install wkhtmltopdf” but this only threw errors at the end.
Thanks for the explanation!
**4.2 Install Node**
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/master/install.sh | bash
source ~/.profile
nvm install 16.15.0
Could you go into a bit more detail about this? Why is an old version of nvm installed?
What does this install.sh script do? Could this break this wonderful guide in the future?
What does the source - command do?
Thanks again so much for your help and explanations!
in 3.1 need add sudo service mysql restart before " ```
sudo mysql_secure_installation
Yes this might be required but it’s not a necessary step before we configure the MariaDB server.
Although restarting the MySQL server is a mandatory step once the config is done to make sure that the changes are applied.
Great to know that you solved the issue. May be it’s a random issue that some users might face depending on the repositories used to install the Ubuntu image.
The install.sh script is the default installation script used by nvm (version manager for Node) to install Node on a per-user, per-shell basis.
The reason for the specific version of Node is because it is one of the newest LTS versions (long-term supported) of Node and it is also compatible with v14 of Frappe & ERPNext.
As for the source ~/.profile command, it is used to set the correct environment variables.
Thanks
Oh wow! Thanks for the explanation!! I remember having to install a much older version of node for my first v13 install.
It’s awesome that it installs the newest LTS version!
This is just fantastic. Great job dude 
Great work!
Great Guide. All done smoothly. Thank you.
I am facing this error
$ bench init --frappe-branch version-14 frappe-bench
Setting Up Environment
$ python3 -m venv env
The virtual environment was not created successfully because ensurepip is not
available. On Debian/Ubuntu systems, you need to install the python3-venv
package using the following command.
apt install python3.8-venv
You may need to use sudo with that command. After installing the python3-venv
package, recreate your virtual environment.
How to resolve this?
I have installed the v environment following step 2.3
sudo apt-get install python3.10-venv
Thank you very much for the procedure. I’ve just installed two instances (for a production server and a development server) and it mostly went through fine, apart from a couple of additions I needed to make that I found elsewhere on this forum. Perhaps those are something to do with the Ubuntu 22.04 installation provided by the host.
Apart from those, I have a couple of comments below:
This appears to install the version from the “develop” branch. Should we be installing from the version-14 branch instead? Or is the payments app not on that branch yet?
For those of us blindly copying and pasting by the time we get to the end, these should be preceded by “sudo” 
Hi @roshrnair
It looks like you have a broken installation of Python. Can you check which version of Python have you installed on your system by running python3 -V Also, are you sure you’re using Ubuntu 22.04?
If it’s a case of broken Python install the I would suggest you to start with afresh on a new server instead of trying to fix the broken package as it will end up creating more issues in the future.
Hi @BillJ
Glad to know that you could get your production servers up and running!
You are right here, the payments app currently has only the “develop” branch available. Same is the case with the HRMS app. May be we will get master branches of these apps (like we have for “ecommerce_integrations” app) in the future.
Thanks for pointing this out. Made the necessary changes in the main post.
Thank You for the response. I am trying to deploy on Ubuntu 20. Is this the issue?
