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When installing Visual Studio Code via apt or homebrew, the VSCode code executable goes to a standard location that is within PATH, however it seems when installing VSCode via Flatpak, it goes somewhere special. I am trying to find this location such that I can add it to my PATH.

balupton
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That's not how flatpack works; the executable is hidden in a container and you need to set up the whole environment to be able to call it. Delivering a well-isolated, not-to-be-run-from-outside environment is the whole point.

You'll want to flatpack run app-name to run your application – in your case, probably flatpak run com.visualstudio.code; you cann add arguments as you want, they will be forwarded to the executable the flatpack declares as the application to run.

Marcus Müller
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  • Okay thank you. I'll need to do some thinking then on how to apply that to things like `git config --global core.editor` – balupton Nov 01 '21 at 01:26
  • should be really `flatpack run com.visualstudio.code --wait`, far as I know, never tried. (`--wait` is really important.) – Marcus Müller Nov 01 '21 at 10:38