Alias apt-get to apt-fast?

Asked Nov 01 '12 at 00:37

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How to get apt-get to call apt-fast?

I use apt-fast, but often find myself copying commands from the internet, these all use apt-get.

I am wondering if it is possible (and what errors I might run into) to alias it so any apt-get commands actually run apt-fast.

The only issue I could see with this is if apt-fast uses apt-get internally anywhere?

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asked Nov 01 '12 at 00:37

Hailwood

AFAIK, you can't make an alias have the name of a command that already exist. – Uri Herrera Nov 01 '12 at 00:43
You can, it's just er... ill advised. – Hailwood Nov 01 '12 at 00:44
Isn't apt-fast similar to sudo apt-get -o Acquire::Queue-Mode="access" update ? – Savvas Radevic Nov 01 '12 at 01:01
@Hailwood What's wrong with creating an alias that has the same name as an existing command? This is done all the time. For example, by default on Ubuntu, grep is an alias for grep --color=auto. – Eliah Kagan Dec 23 '12 at 12:19

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