You can check from within the extension whether the $SNAP environment variable
is set.
It's a bit of a suboptimal user experience, but at least that would provide
feedback to the user.
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OK, but I don't think including the hundreds of MB of LaTeX packages
could be an option.
Perhaps, TexMaths could detect if it is run from within a snap and warn
the user about the issue? For me, this approach is OK.
Does it sound feasible?
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The way snaps work, they are strictly confined with apparmor that
prevents access to the host system. There are interfaces that, when
connected, allow partial access to some of the host's features, but to
my knowledge none of them allow executing random binaries in /usr/bin/.
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Is it not possible to simply allow the access to the /usr directory?
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1747875
Title:
[snap] permission restriction on /usr breaks TexMaths extension
To
Given that TexMaths is configurable and lets the user change the path to
the latex binary, I guess one option would be to ship latex within the
snap. That might not be very user-friendly, as I'm not convinced the
extension would find it without the user telling it where to look for
it. And we need
** Summary changed:
- Libreoffice snap permission restriction on /usr breaks TexMaths extension
+ [snap] permission restriction on /usr breaks TexMaths extension
** Tags added: snap
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