While install cpanel on Almalinux 8 had an issue where cpanel was not getting installed and stopping with error

024-03-21 11:12:42 449 307652: Public key for nscd-2.28-236.el8_9.12.x86_64.rpm is not installed. Failing package is: nscd-2.28-236.el8_9.12.x86_64
2024-03-21 11:12:42 449 307652: GPG Keys are configured as: file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-AlmaLinux
2024-03-21 11:12:42 449 307652: The downloaded packages were saved in cache until the next successful transaction.
2024-03-21 11:12:42 449 307652: You can remove cached packages by executing ‘yum clean packages’.
2024-03-21 11:12:42 449 307652: Error: GPG check FAILED
2024-03-21 11:12:42 449 307652: – ssystem [EXIT_CODE] ‘/usr/bin/yum’ exited with 1
2024-03-21 11:12:42 449 307652: – ssystem [END]
2024-03-21 11:12:42 44 307652: cPanel is here to help! Our technical KnowledgeBase and cPanel Community is just a click away at https://support.cpanel.net/
2024-03-21 11:12:42 453 307652: yum failed 6 times. The installation process cannot continue.

...propagated at /home/cPanelInstall/selfgz307486/Installer.pm line 618.2024-03-21 11:12:42   44 [307540] ( INFO): cPanel is here to help! Our technical KnowledgeBase and cPanel Community is just a click away at https://support.cpanel.net/

2024-03-21 11:12:42 558 307540: ensure_pkgs_install failed: 256

The issue was due to Almalinux updated their GPG keys recently, and it appears the server may not have had the most up-to-date version.

Running command fixed the issue

rpm –import https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/RPM-GPG-KEY-AlmaLinux

Now cpanel install is working fine

To install wkhtmltopdf plugin on Almalinux 8

Run the below commands

yum install -y xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 libpng libjpeg op

yum install -y xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 libpng libjpeg openssl icu libX11 libXext libXrender xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi
Last metadata expiration check: 1:05:20 ago on Tuesday 23 April 2024 03:08:54 AM PDT.
Package libpng-2:1.6.34-5.el8.x86_64 is already installed.
Package libjpeg-turbo-1.5.3-12.el8.x86_64 is already installed.
Package openssl-1:1.1.1k-12.el8_9.x86_64 is already installed.
Package libX11-1.6.8-6.el8.x86_64 is already installed.
Package libXext-1.3.4-1.el8.x86_64 is already installed.
Package libXrender-0.9.10-7.el8.x86_64 is already installed.

Dependencies resolved.

Package Architecture Version Repository Size

Installing:
icu x86_64 60.3-2.el8_1 baseos 243 k
xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi noarch 7.5-19.el8 appstream 2.8 M
xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 noarch 7.5-19.el8 appstream 522 k
Installing dependencies:
ttmkfdir x86_64 3.0.9-54.el8 appstream 62 k

Transaction Summary

Install 4 Packages

Total download size: 3.6 M
Installed size: 4.6 M
Downloading Packages:
(1/4): ttmkfdir-3.0.9-54.el8.x86_64.rpm 2.1 MB/s | 62 kB 00:00
(2/4): icu-60.3-2.el8_1.x86_64.rpm 6.8 MB/s | 243 kB 00:00
(3/4): xorg-x11-fonts-Type1-7.5-19.el8.noarch.rpm 25 MB/s | 522 kB 00:00

(4/4): xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi-7.5-19.el8.noarch.rpm 28 MB/s | 2.8 MB 00:00

Total 6.4 MB/s | 3.6 MB 00:00
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
Preparing : 1/1
Installing : ttmkfdir-3.0.9-54.el8.x86_64 1/4
Installing : xorg-x11-fonts-Type1-7.5-19.el8.noarch 2/4
Running scriptlet: xorg-x11-fonts-Type1-7.5-19.el8.noarch 2/4
Installing : xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi-7.5-19.el8.noarch 3/4
Running scriptlet: xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi-7.5-19.el8.noarch 3/4
Installing : icu-60.3-2.el8_1.x86_64 4/4
Running scriptlet: icu-60.3-2.el8_1.x86_64 4/4
Verifying : icu-60.3-2.el8_1.x86_64 1/4
Verifying : ttmkfdir-3.0.9-54.el8.x86_64 2/4
Verifying : xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi-7.5-19.el8.noarch 3/4
Verifying : xorg-x11-fonts-Type1-7.5-19.el8.noarch 4/4

Installed:

icu-60.3-2.el8_1.x86_64 ttmkfdir-3.0.9-54.el8.x86_64 xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi-7.5-19.el8.noarch xorg-x11-fonts-Type1-7.5-19.el8.noarch

Complete!

Download the RPM wkhtmltox-0.12.6.1-2.almalinux8.x86_64.rpm from github

wget https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/packaging/releases/download/0.12.6.1-2/wkhtmltox-0.12.6.1-2.almalinux8.x86_64.rpm

yum install wkhtmltox-0.12.6.1-2.almalinux8.x86_64.rpm

Last metadata expiration check: 1:09:05 ago on Tuesday 23 April 2024 03:08:54 AM PDT.

Dependencies resolved.

Package Architecture Version Repository Size

Installing:
wkhtmltox x86_64 1:0.12.6.1-2.almalinux8 @commandline 15 M

Transaction Summary

Install 1 Package

Total size: 15 M
Installed size: 124 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
Preparing : 1/1
Installing : wkhtmltox-1:0.12.6.1-2.almalinux8.x86_64 1/1
Running scriptlet: wkhtmltox-1:0.12.6.1-2.almalinux8.x86_64 1/1
Verifying : wkhtmltox-1:0.12.6.1-2.almalinux8.x86_64 1/1

Installed:
wkhtmltox-1:0.12.6.1-2.almalinux8.x86_64

Complete!

To test the plugin is working run below command

wkhtmltopdf onlinesupport4u.in onlinesupport4u.pdf
Loading pages (1/6)
Counting pages (2/6)
Resolving links (4/6)
Loading headers and footers (5/6)
Printing pages (6/6)
Done