Comment by campground

Here's a little function that I use pretty often when I want to install a package but I'm not sure what the exact package name is. Give it a keyword and it searches apt-cache and dumps the results into fzf.

  function finstall {
      PACKAGE_NAME=$(apt-cache search $1 | fzf | cut --delimiter=" " --fields=1)
      if [ "$PACKAGE_NAME" ]; then
          echo "Installing $PACKAGE_NAME"
          sudo apt install $PACKAGE_NAME
      fi
  }