Cannot Render Mathematics

[laolux]

In this flatpak version of inkscape I cannot render mathematics.
Extensions -> Render -> Mathematics and then LaTeX (pdflatex) is greyed out.
Would be great if LaTeX support could be added to this flatpak, which works well in the natively installed version.

[hfiguiere]

texlive support is over 4GB FWIW.

[laolux]

It does not matter how large texlive support is. It can be packaged as a plugin, so only users who explicitly select it will download it. And it can be a shared flatpak module, meaning that multiple flatpaks share the same texlive environment and it does not need to be downloaded again.

Only problem: I don't know how to package flatpaks or make plugins, otherwise I would submit a pull request.

[fmonteghetti]

My understanding is that the "flatpak way" of solving this issue would be to use the runtime org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.texlive.
This is what e.g. org.texstudio.TeXstudio does.

A dirty workaround that works with the current flatpak version is to force inkscape to use your locally-installed LaTeX distribution:
$ flatpak run --env=PATH="/path/to/texlive/bin/x86_64-linux:/app/bin:/usr/bin" org.inkscape.Inkscape