Ability to install additional CLI packages?

[Jonah Lawrence]

Is it currently possible to tell Vercel to install additional packages to be made available at runtime?

I am not referring to packages installable via Composer, but rather ones you would install for use on the command line.

For example, if I wanted to run inkscape via shell_exec, would I be able to tell Vercel to install the inkscape package and avoid getting the sh: line 98: inkscape: command not found error?

[Milan Felix Šulc]

Hi. There is build phase and runtime phase. During build phase we can install anything you want. But during runtime phase is it problematic. Is inkscape single binary without dependencies?

[Jonah Lawrence]

Thanks for taking a look.

Not sure about dependencies, but it seems there are a few options including an executable Appimage.

https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.2.2/

[Jonah Lawrence]

Any update on this?

Is there anything I can do to get inkscape installed?

Or, if not, is it possible to get the Imagick PHP extension?

Thanks!

[Milan Felix Šulc]

Hi @DenverCoder1, I don't the the easy way how to do it right now.

[Jonah Lawrence]

Ok, no problem.

On Heroku, I was able to add third party buildpacks that can install things. I have gotten inkscape working there by adding the buildpack https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-apt and having an Aptfile with "inkscape" as the contents.

Is it possible to install apt packages listed in a file with Vercel? I'm not really sure how Vercel's runtime works.

[Milan Felix Šulc]

Aptfile would be great, but it's not possible right now.

[Jonah Lawrence]

Okay, I'll look forward to hearing if you do find a good solution. 👍