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Make Inkscape installed through Flatpak callable in the terminal as 'inkscape'? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have a Python-package that calls Inkscape as part of a conversion process. I have it installed, but through Flatpak. This means that calling inkscape does not work in the terminal, but rather flatpak run org.inkscape.Inkscape. I need the package to be able to call it as inkscape.

What is the best way to go about this?

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[–] premavansmuuf 45 points 11 months ago (5 children)

alias inkscape="flatpak run org.inkscape.Inkscape" into your .bashrc.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Yeah, I tried this, and it works from my session, but I still got the same error from trying to run the program. I figured it was because it is called outside the bash session so the run commands have not been run, but is that perhaps not true?

[–] ForynGilnith 39 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

If that's the case, it's a bit of an ugly hack but you could make a wrapper script placed in /usr/local/bin/inkscape like this:

#!/bin/bash

flatpack run org.inkscape.Inkscape ${*}

(the ${*} will pass along all the arguments that the wrapper script was called with)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Thanks! I was trying to implement this, and was trying to figure out how to pass all the arguments! This worked for me! I got some other errors, but they don't seem related to this, so now to find out what they are all about 😅

[–] cybersandwich 1 points 11 months ago

This is a great little hack.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Saving this for later, that's genius.