Make Inkscape installed through Flatpak callable in the terminal as 'inkscape'?

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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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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?

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)

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 😅