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title: "Aliases for Snaps and Flatpaks"
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date: 2022-02-04T20:29:04-05:00
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draft: false
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tags: ["Linux"]
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math: false
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---
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Sometimes snap packages and flatpaks come with unmemorable names to run their commands. Luckily for snap packages, you can easily alias them. For example, to rename the .NET executable to `dotnet` run.
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```bash
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sudo snap alias dotnet-sdk.dotnet dotnet
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```
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Sadly the same cannot be said for Flatpaks. There is a [Github issue](https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/1565) open at the moment. I'll update this post when they successfully close the issue. In the meantime, we can use a script made by Seth Kenlon over at [Red Hat's blog](https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/launch-flatpaks-terminal-fuzzpak). The script is at the bottom of the post for posterity. You can save it to `~/.local/bin`, `chmod +x ~/.local/bin`, and then run `fuzzpak [appname]` where `appname` is the last part of the flatpak name. For example, the package`io.typora.Typora` can be called with `fuzzpak typora`.
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```bash
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# parse opts
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while [ True ]; do
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if [ "$1" = "--help" -o "$1" = "-h" ]; then
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echo " "
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echo "$0 [OPTIONS]"
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echo "--directory, -d Location of flatpaks (default: $HOME/.var/app"
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echo " "
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exit
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elif [ "$1" = "--directory" -o "$1" = "-d" ]; then
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DIR=$DIR
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shift 2
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else
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break
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fi
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done
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# main
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launch_app "${1}"
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```
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