I have an issue running VSCode within Flatpak on Linux "JAVA_HOME"

Question

I have a laptop running the Linux Mint distribution. I downloaded both VSCode and Android Studio using Flatpak. After installing Flutter and starting a mobile application project using Flutter, I encountered the following error message: `

ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.

Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
location of your Java installation.`

Please note that the issue is that Visual Studio Code cannot see the existing variable.

I tried to make sure that Java is installed and included in the environment variables.

The problem is that the program within the Flatpak environment cannot access external environment variables.

Answer 1

as far as I know, flatpak isolates your apps from your system with its dependencies it's like a docker container

try installing them on the system itself using apt, pacman...