using groff inside of a flatpak container

Question

I am trying to call the program groff from inside a gedit flatpak (external tools plugin). The flatpak can access the groff binary, but groff looks for files at /usr/share/groff, while in flatpak, this path is mapped to /var/run/host/usr/share/groff. What is the proper way of accessing a binary like this? Or rather the datadir of a binary like this?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 28 '22 at 16:20

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Probably the best way is to set environment variables

export GROFF_TMAC_PATH=/var/run/host/usr/share/groff/site.tmac
export GROFF_FONT_PATH=/var/run/host/usr/share/groff/site-font

answered Mar 28 '22 at 16:20

Ljm Dullaart

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wow, I have been using groff for over a year and did not know these env variables existed, thanks! – user18130814200115 Mar 29 '22 at 17:35

using groff inside of a flatpak container

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