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

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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Put a shell script in your PATH named inkscape with the following content:

#!/bin/sh flatpak run org.inkscape.Inkscape

Note that you can use a local folder in your home directory to house small executables and scripts like this, so you don't have to touch your system config. I generally recommend using something like ~/.local/bin and add it to your PATH via your Shell's RC file.
- How does this deal with any flags passed?
  
  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.
- Or instead just make it an alias in your .bashrc

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