Issues with pdftk on bluehost

Question

I am trying to fill fields in pdf forms based on user data for a site on bluehost. I had it working about a month ago using pdftk. Yesterday for some reason it is not working at all. I then tried running it from the command line and am getting the following error.

./pdftk: error while loading shared libraries: libgcj.so.7rh: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I have been bashing my head against this for a few hours no to no avail.

Is there any way to fix this on bluehost? I tried manually installing the library, but I can not access /var/lib and I also can not force it to install elsewhere

[~/lib/temp]# rpm -i libgcj-4.1.2-51.SEL5_5.x86_64.rpm warning: libgcj-4.1.2-51.SEL5_5.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 652e84dc: NOKEY error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock (Permission denied)

[~/lib/temp]# rpm -i --prefix ~/lib/rpm libgcj-4.1.2-51.SEL5_5.x86_64.rpm warning: libgcj-4.1.2-51.SEL5_5.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 652e84dc: NOKEY error: package libgcj is not relocatable

Alternatively, is ther any other way of filling pdf files that I am missing? I have looked into Horde PDF, forge_fdf and others and nothing is working.

Answer 1

I know that they just upgraded their server's OS, and yes the CentOS upgrade caused this. But you should be able to get a Cent 6 rpm of the offending lib and the pdftk command and do what ever you did before to make it work. It's probably on of the following:

libgcj-4.4.6-3.el6.x86_64 or libgcj-4.1.2-51.el5

/usr/lib64/libgcj.so.10 = looks like that is the new library path

But contact them to find out which one, or which ones.

Answer 2

Sounds like bluehost changed something in your account or server. I would try calling them or doing a live chat with them, I've had good results with their technicians.