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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If you need to pass flags you can use

flatpak run org.inkscape.Inkscape "$@"

To forward all of the arguments to the script. Note that this might be a bashism, so you might need to change your hash bang to /bin/bash as well. Double check though.

(An easy way to check if something is working as you assume is just prepend the line with echo.)

This is not a bashism. It'll work fine with any sh.

Thanks, I wasn't sure it worked in sh. I've been surprised a lot before by seemingly simple stuff like this.