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GNU Software
GNU is an operating system which is
100% free software. It was launched in
1983 by Richard Stallman (rms) and has
been developed by many people
working together for the sake of
freedom of all software users to control
their computing. Technically, GNU is
generally like Unix. But unlike Unix,
GNU gives its users freedom.
The GNU system contains all of the
official GNU software packages (which
are listed below), and also includes
non-GNU free software, notably TeX
and the X Window System. Also, the
GNU system is not a single static set of
programs; users and distributors may
select different packages according to
their needs and desires. The result is
still a variant of the GNU system.
If you're looking for a whole system to
install, see our list of GNU/Linux
distributions which are entirely free
software.
To look for individual free software
packages, both GNU and non-GNU,
please see the Free Software Directory:
a categorized, searchable database of
free software. The Directory is actively
maintained by the Free Software Foundation and includes links to program home pages where available,
as well as entries for all GNU packages. Another list of all GNU packages is below. Free software
documentation links are listed separately.
Finally, we have a short list of free software for Microsoft Windows, for Windows users who would like to
try free software.
How to get GNU software
GNU software is available by several different methods:
Download a wholly free GNU/Linux distribution.
Get a copy from a friend.
Buy a computer with a wholly free GNU/Linux system preinstalled from one of the companies
that offers this.
Download individual packages from the web or via FTP: we provide source code for all GNU
software as free software, and free of charge. (Please also make a donation to the FSF if you can,
to help support the development of more free software.)
Use the GNU Guix functional package manager to install and manage GNU package releases.
Use the GNU GSRC collection to easily install the latest GNU package releases on their own,
without conflicting with any system versions.
Use the GNU PPA or GNUstep PPA (Personal Package Archive) on Trisquel, gNewSense, or
related distros to get the latest releases suitably packaged.
Get the development sources for a package and build them. Many GNU packages keep their
development sources at the GNU hosting site savannah.gnu.org. Some packages use other source
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repositories, or have none at all. Each package's web pages should give the specifics.
Develop GNU software
If you are developing a GNU package, please take a look at the available GNU software developer
resources.
Although not strictly about official GNU software, we maintain a list of high-priority free software
projects. Please help with these projects if you can. For other ways to contribute to GNU, including
taking over unmaintained GNU packages and helping with development, see the GNU help wanted page.
If you're writing a new program and would like to make your software an official GNU package, see the
evaluation information and submission form.
All GNU packages
Here is a list of all current GNU packages, using their package identifiers (rather than long names) for
brevity, and sorted alphabetically. If you have corrections to or questions about this list, please email
<maintainers@gnu.org>.
Also available are lists of:
short descriptions for all GNU packages;
documentation for GNU packages (arranged by category);
GNU package logos; and
recent GNU releases.
3dldf a2ps acct acm adns alive anubis apl archimedes aris aspell auctex autoconf autoconf-archive
autogen automake avl ballandpaddle barcode bash bayonne bazaar bc bfd binutils bison bool
bpel2owfn c-graph ccaudio ccd2cue ccide ccrtp ccscript cflow cgicc chess cim classpath classpathx
clisp cobol combine commoncpp complexity config consensus coreutils cpio cppi cssc cursynth
dap datamash dc ddd ddrescue dejagnu denemo dia dico diction diffutils dionysus djgpp dmd
dominion dr-geo easejs ed edma electric emacs emacs-muse emms enscript eprints epsilon fdisk
ferret findutils fisicalab fontutils freedink freefont freeipmi freetalk fribidi gama garpd gawk gcal
gcc gcide gcl gcompris gdb gdbm gengen gengetopt gettext gforth ggradebook ghostscript gift
gimp gleem glib global glpk glue gmediaserver gmp gnash gnat gnats gnatsweb gnome gnowsys
gnu-c-manual gnu-crypto gnu-pw-mgr gnuae gnubatch gnubg gnubiff gnubik gnucap gnucash
gnucobol gnucomm gnudos gnue gnufm gnugo gnuit gnujdoc gnujump gnukart gnulib gnumach
gnumed gnumeric gnump3d gnun gnunet gnupg gnupod gnuprologjava gnuradio gnurobots
gnuschool gnushogi gnusound gnuspeech gnuspool gnustandards gnustep gnutls gnutrition
gnuzilla goptical gorm gpaint gperf gprolog grabcomics greg grep gretl groff grub gsasl gsegrafix
gsl gsrc gss gtick gtk+ gtypist guile guile-dbi guile-gnome guile-ncurses guile-opengl guile-rpc
guile-sdl guix gurgle gv gvpe gxmessage gzip halifax health hello help2man hp2xx httptunnel hurd
hyperbole icecat idutils ignuit indent inetutils intlfonts jacal java-getopt jel jwhois kawa kopi leg
less libc libcdio libdbh liberty-eiffel libextractor libffcall libgcrypt libiconv libidn libjit libmatheval
libmicrohttpd libredwg librejs libsigsegv libtasn1 libtool libunistring libxmi lightning lilypond lims
linux-libre liquidwar6 lispintro lrzsz lsh m4 macchanger mailman mailutils make marst maverik
mc mcron mcsim mdk mediagoblin melting metaexchange metahtml mifluz mig miscfiles
mit-scheme moe motti mpc mpfr mpria mtools nana nano ncurses nettle network ocrad octave
oleo orgadoc osip panorama parallel parted pascal patch paxutils pcb pdf pem pexec pgccfd
phantom_home pies pipo plotutils polyxmass powerguru proxyknife pspp psychosynth pth
pyconfigure pythonwebkit qexo quickthreads r radius rcs readline recutils reftex remotecontrol
rottlog rpge rush sather scm screen sed serveez sharutils shishi shmm shtool sipwitch slib
smalltalk social solfege spacechart speex spell sqltutor src-highlite stalkerfs stow stump superopt
swbis sysutils talkfilters tar termcap termutils teseq teximpatient texinfo texmacs thales time
tramp trans-coord trueprint unifont units unrtf userv uucp vc-dwim vcdimager vera vmgen wb
wdiff websocket4j webstump wget which womb xaos xboard xhippo xlogmaster xmlat xnee xorriso
zile
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Decommissioned GNU packages
GNU packages are occasionally decommissioned, generally because they've been superseded by, or
integrated into, other packages. If you have time and interest in resurrecting any of these, please contact
<maintainers@gnu.org>. Here is the list; we leave the old project pages up (when they existed): aeneas,
aetherspace, aroundme, 3dkit, abcsh, awacs, cfs-el, checker, cons, dgs (display ghostscript), dld, dotgnu,
dotgnu-pnet, dr.genius, elib, ffp, fhp, free (gnu.free), gcron (see mcron), gfe, ggv (see gv), gicqd,
giptables, gmorph, gnochive, gnotary, gnotepad+, gnubios, gnu-arch, gnu-queue, gnucad, gnufi,
gnupedia (see wikipedia), gnuskies, gnusql, gnustep-db, gnuts, goldwater, goodbye, goose, gphoto,
graphics, grover, gtkeditor, gtkeyboard, guss, hegemonie, jdresolve, lengualibre, leonardo, libopts (see
autogen), mana, messenger, mgcp, mll2html, obst, octal, p2c, packaging, patchwork, phpgroupware,
pips, poc, proto, rat, regex, rpge, snakecharmer, songanizer, sourceinstall, sweater, sxml, toutdoux,
vmslib, webpublish, xbase, xinfo, xmhtml, zebra.
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