Trying to build a flatpak for my app, but it needs inkscape in order to build the app (obviously not a dependency of the app at runtime, just a build time). inkscape is installed on the host system, but I understand that flatpak-builder cannot run commands from the host. Can I depend on https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.inkscape.Inkscape somehow? Or do I have to build all of Inkscape from source just to build my app?
How to install flatpak build dependencies?
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Any flatpak has files that are available from the filesystem, so you can link to the inkscape flatpak from builder. It may actually link libraries automatically if the Inkscape flatpak is intended to be a runtime, but if not, point builder to the libraries contained in /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.inkscape.Inkscape/x86_64/stable/active/files/lib, and hopefully it'll have what you're looking for.
Definitely a lot easier than a package manager to clean up afterward if you don't want to keep the libraries when you're done.
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