How to add ART raw plugin path to Gimp in Linux

Software GIMP
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On Windows when I install Gimp 3.24 first and ART 1.26.4 second, the path for the RAW plugin file-another-rawtherapee is automatically added under Edit / Preferences / Image Import & Export / Raw Image Importer field in Gimp, and when I select a raw image in Gimp, it automatically opens it in ART and then copies it to Gimp when I close the ART window.

On linux, when I install Gimp and then ART (same versions as on Windows), I can see that the ART raw plugin has been installed under the Gimp plugins folder, but the path to it has not been added to Image Import & Export path in Gimp, and there’s no obvious way to edit/add that path manually. To process raw images I have to first open them in ART, save them out as tiff, and then open the tiff in Gimp.

How can I add the plugin path to the Raw Image Importer field so that I can open raw images in linux?

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How did you install GIMP and ART? What distro are you using?

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If you use GIMP Flatpak version, it can’t recognise ART path and you can’t use built-in ART plug-in.
So I wrote the following plug-in as alternative method to use ART as Raw importer.

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OS is Linux Mint with Gimp installed via apt and ART via flatpak (there doesn’t appear to be a deb file available for ART to install using apt). I used your plugin and import from ART to Gimp now works. Thanks.

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