Installing Linux Software on SmartOS

Question

I am using a standard64 (Image 13.3.1) SmartOS machine from Joyent and I would like to install some software written for Linux. The software (called wkhtmltopdf) is an HTML to PDF converter written in C++. The software is downloadable here.

How can I get this Linux 64 bit software to install and run on SmartOS?

Answer 1

Here is the source code: https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf

You need to compile it on your machine. You might require some additional libraries. You can contact the authors for more info if the documentation doesn't help.

Answer 2

Joyent now supports Linux compatible instances (no VM) on their public cloud, so this should run fine just as is (a Linux binary).