GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 772606
Create a container (with Flatpak for example)
Last modified: 2018-02-23 16:26:04 UTC
I tried to create a Flatpak, see the wip/flatpak branch: https://git.gnome.org/browse/latexila/commit/?h=wip/flatpak As said in the commit message: There is a problem, LaTeX (TeX Live) is not installed inside the sandbox. LaTeXila launches a GSubprocess with a latex command. See this thread: "Flatpak and LaTeX" https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg-app/2016-June/000255.html An interesting addition in Flatpak 0.6.10: > A new dbus request "HostCommand" has been added to org.freedesktop.Flatpak. > This lets you run any command on the host, and is therefore clearly not > sandboxed, so access to this should be limited. However, it is very useful > if you're using flatpak mainly as a distribution mechanism, for a non-sandboxed > application. But it needs code modification in latexila to make it work (or maybe a GSubprocess flag can be added in GIO to launch the command on the host). Or instead of using Flatpak, another container system could be used, like systemd-nspawn. See the following article for a way to create a systemd-nspawn container for a LaTeX application: https://ramsdenj.com/2016/09/23/containerizing-graphical-applications-on-linux-with-systemd-nspawn.html
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