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authorThomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>2013-03-26 15:49:59 +0100
committerThomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>2013-03-26 15:49:59 +0100
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[[!meta title="What software is available for GNU?"]]
- * Most (3/4) packages from [Debian](http://www.debian.org/) [GNU/Linux](http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html) which aren't linux-specific ([Packages That Won't Be Ported](http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-devel-debian)) are expected to work on GNU/Hurd too. See the database in <http://packages.debian.org/>. Notably, [GNOME](http://www.gnome.org), and [KDE](http://www.kde.org) work. See the [[porting/guidelines]] document for some common build problems and their solutions.
- * If you can't fetch a package with "apt-get install ", try building it from source: "apt-get source &amp;&amp; cd &lt;package\_dir&gt; &amp;&amp; debian/rules binary".
- * As of March 2013, 78% of Debian packages have been ported on the Hurd. Of course, bug testing is welcome.
+As of March 2013, 78% of all [Debian](http://www.debian.org/)
+[packages](http://packages.debian.org/) are available for [[Debian
+GNU/Hurd|hurd/running/debian]]. Of course, testing and bug fixing is welcome,
+as we have obviously not tested all of them.
+
+Generally, packages
+that aren't Linux-specific (see [Packages That Won't Be
+Ported](http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-devel-debian))
+are expected to work on GNU/Hurd too. Notably, [X.Org](http://www.x.org/),
+[GNOME](http://www.gnome.org/), [KDE](http://www.kde.org/),
+[Firefox](http://www.mozilla.org/firefox) work. See
+the [[hurd/porting/guidelines]] document for some common build problems and their
+solutions.