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authorSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2013-03-23 11:24:20 +0100
committerSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2013-03-23 11:24:20 +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 Debian packages have been ported on the Hurd. Of
+course, bug testing and fixing is welcome, as we have obviously not tested all
+of them.
+
+Most packages from [Debian](http://www.debian.org/)
+[GNU/Linux](http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html)
+which 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. See the database in
+<http://packages.debian.org/>. Notably, [Xorg](http://www.x.org/),
+[GNOME](http://www.gnome.org/), [KDE](http://www.kde.org/), firefox work. See
+the [[porting/guidelines]] document for some common build problems and their
+solutions.