So I tried installing prince on my CentOS 5.6 dev machine like so:

# Download prince
wget http://www.princexml.com/download/prince-8.0-linux.tar.gz
# Extract
tar xzf prince-*
# Install
cd prince-*
./install.sh
# Test it works OK
prince --help

I then get the following error:

/usr/local/lib/prince/bin/prince: error while loading shared libraries: libtiff.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

A quick check shows I have libtiff.so.3 and not libtiff.so.4... So I took a stab in the dark and made a symlink so libtiff.so.4 points to libtiff.so.3, but now I get the following error:

/usr/local/lib/prince/bin/prince: error while loading shared libraries: libcurl.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Not sure how to fix these problems, any help would be appreciated

How about try installing the CentOS 5.x RPM instead?

Ah yes, that would be more logical! Had a couple of issues with fonts (now resolved), here's my process:

So I've cleaned up my first generic attempt and installed a new one with RPM:

# Install via RPM
rpm -iv http://www.princexml.com/download/prince-8.0-1.centos52.i386.rpm
# Test it works OK
/usr/bin/prince http://princexml.com/ prince.pdf

This throws an error prince: warning: no glyphs for character U+0050, fallback to '?'
prince: internal error: no available fonts

Checking the forums I know to check my fonts:

# How many fonts do I have?
fc-list | wc -l
    # Shows 53
# Do I have times new roman?
fc-list | grep -i times
    # Nothing returned

So I hunted around for a microsoft fonts package and found this (no warranty of it's contents etc etc etc)

# Install the fonts
rpm -iv ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/home:/gwayne/CentOS_5/noarch/webcore-fonts-3.0-2.1.noarch.rpm
# Test it works OK
/usr/bin/prince http://princexml.com/ prince.pdf

Badabing, working fine