apt-iselect: interactive apt-cache search tool
http://www.rot13.org/~dpavlin/apt-iselect.html
http://www.rot13.org/~dpavlin/apt-iselect.html
This is small wrapper for apt-cache search and apt-get install which uses iselect to search and install packages. If you have wml installed, you know (and like) iselect.
Special care has been taken to make this tool easy and fast to use (several times faster than aptitude for this task). Because of that design decision you can:
* install package with just 3 presses of enter
* search again if your initial search returned too little or too much results
* easily browse through found packages
It will also automatically use sudo if it's installed. If not, it will ask for root password and use su. It will also automatically install iselect if it's not already installed.