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Install Quarto extensions globally
Is there a way to install Quarto extensions globally?
If I follow the installation instruction from https://quarto.org/docs/extensions/managing.html and e.g. use
quarto add quarto-ext/fontawesome
to install an extension, I have to do this from the same folder as my current project is in and the extension will only be available for files in this folder.
Is there a way to make them available to all projects, no matter in which folder they are saved?
My current workaround is to copy the _extensions folder to a central location and then add a symlink to this folder every time I'd like to use one of the extensions in a project.
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| User | Comment | Date |
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| samcarter | (no comment) | Oct 6, 2023 at 11:51 |
This is probably not a lasting solution, but one can manually copy the individual folders of the extensions to
<path to your quarto installation>/share/extensions/quarto/
Documents seem to be able to find them from there, but I doubt they will survive future updates.
Update:
Surprisingly, the added extensions seem to be still there after updating Quarto manually by running the installer again. No guaranties for other update mechanism.
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