Can anybody tell me how to create an alias for macchanger-gtk.
I've tried but nothing works any help would be great.

Please show us your attempt and explain exactly what is not working?

i'm feeling generous:
put that into ~/.bashrc, it will be persistent.
only works in terminal.

The command I use is this

alias mmc='macchanger-gtk'

it works the first time, after that it gives me this output "You must be root for use macchanger-gtk"
I've tried root but i get this instead "No command 'mmc' found, did you mean:"

First thing to remember is that when you create an alias it is yours and no elses by default, hence if you change to root (or any other user) it will not exist for them. You can of course make it global to all users but this is generally not the solution.

You mentioned it works the first time, so just to clarify, the following are the steps you take:
Please confirm the above is what you are referring to and this is as your standard user?

Still doesn't work any ideas.

Please show us exact steps and messages as "doesn't work" holds no information we can assist with.

This what I typed into the terminal.

alias mmc ='macchanger-gtk'

output bash: No command 'mmc' found, did you mean:

No command 'mmc' found, did you mean:
Command 'mc' from package 'mc' (universe)
Command 'mzc' from package 'racket' (universe)
Command 'qmc' from package 'qmc' (universe)
Command 'mic' from package 'mic2' (universe)
Command 'moc' from package 'qtchooser' (main)
Command 'mm' from package 'multimail' (universe)
Command 'mpc' from package 'mpc' (universe)
Command 'mmv' from package 'mmv' (universe)
Command 'mmg' from package 'mkvtoolnix-gui' (universe)
Command 'imc' from package 'italc-management-console' (universe)
Command 'zmc' from package 'zoneminder' (universe)
Command 'mmd' from package 'mtools' (main)
Command 'wmc' from package 'wine1.6' (universe)
Command 'smc' from package 'smc' (universe)
mmc: command not found

Close all your terminal(s).
Edit your ~./bashrc and add:
using any editor you like.

Save your ~/.bashrc
open a terminal and type

This going to sound stupid but how do I edit the ~./bashrc

Pick a text editor and open it. You can do it graphically from a file browser, or you can launch one of the hundreds of Linux text editors from the command line.

vi ~/.bashrc
emacs ~/.bashrc
pico ~/.bashrc
nano ~/.bashrc
gedit ~/.bashrc
kate ~/.bashrc
...

Do that now what, Sorry I'm new to this

What editor did you use?

As no one has said yet, the reason you received all the errors above is because you left a space between mmc and = sign. Bash requires no space between the two otherwise it considers both alias
and mmc to be commands. This will be the same in your .bashrc file.

Once you have edited the file you need a new login to test if it has worked and generally you can simply open a new terminal to test that.

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