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    Flatpak haters seem to believe that if an app isn't on their distro's repos, it's the developers' fault. (lemmy.world)
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    [–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

    Well, Flatpak installs aliases, so as long as your distribution - or yourself - add the <installation>/exports/bin path to $PATH, then you'll be able to use the application IDs to launch them.

    And if you want to have the Flatpak available under a different name than its ID, you can always symlink the exported bin to whatever name you'd personally prefer.
    I've got Blender set up that way myself, with the org.blender.Blender bin symlinked to /usr/local/bin/blender, so that some older applications that expect to be able to simply interop with it are able to.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

    Is there some way to set an install hook that automatically makes those symlinks when you install a flatpak?

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    Well, Flatpak always builds the aliases, so as long as the <installation>/exports/bin folder is in $PATH there's no need to symlink.

    If you're talking specifically about having symlinks with some arbitrary name that you prefer, then that's something you'll have to do yourself, the Flatpak applications only provide their canonical name after all.
    You could probably do something like that with inotify and a simple script though, just point it at the exports/bin folders for the installations that you care about, and set up your own mapping between canonical names and whatever names you prefer.