<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --> <title>Software - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title> <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --> <!--#include virtual="/software/po/software.translist" --> <h2>Download GNU</h2> <div style="width: 300px; padding: 15px; margin: 15px; float: right; border: 6px solid #bd0;"> <h4 class="center">Download distributions</h4> <p><a href="/distros/free-distros.html"><img src="/graphics/gnu-and-penguin-color-300x276.jpg" alt="GNU and Linux" /></a></p> <p><span class="highlight">If you're looking for a whole system to install, see our <a href="/distros/free-distros.html">list of GNU/Linux distributions which are entirely free software</a>.</span></p> </div> <p><a href="/philosophy/categories.html#TheGNUsystem">The GNU operating system</a> is the Unix-like operating system, which is entirely free software, that we in the GNU Project have developed since 1984. The GNU system contains all of the <a href="/philosophy/categories.html#GNUsoftware">official GNU software packages</a> (which are listed below), and also includes much non-GNU free software, such as 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.</p> <p>If you're looking for a whole system to install, see our <a href="/distros/free-distros.html">list of GNU/Linux distributions which are entirely free software</a>.</p> <p>To look for individual free software packages, both GNU and non-GNU, please see the <a href="http://directory.fsf.org/">Free Software Directory</a>: a categorized, searchable database of free software. The Directory is actively maintained by the <a href="http://www.fsf.org/">Free Software Foundation</a> and includes links to program home pages where available, as well as entries for <a href="http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/GNU/">all GNU packages</a>. Another list of <a href="#allgnupkgs">all GNU packages</a> is below. <a href="/doc/doc.html">Free software documentation links</a> are listed separately.</p> <p>We also maintain a list of <a href="http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority.html">high-priority free software projects</a>. 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 <a href="/help/help.html">GNU help wanted</a> page.</p> <p>If you are developing a GNU package, or you are thinking of starting, you may be interested in <a href="/software/devel.html">GNU Software Developer Resources</a>. 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(Please also make a <a href="/help/donate.html">donation</a> to the FSF, if you can, to help us write more free software.)</li> <li>Get a copy from a friend. (Likewise please make a donation if you can.)</li> <li>Use the <a href="/software/gsrc/gsrc.html">GNUGSRC</a>SRC</a> package to easily install many of the latest GNU package releases on their own, without conflicting with any system versions.</li> <li>Use the <a href="https://launchpad.net/~dns/+archive/gnu?field.series_filter=">GNU PPA</a> or <a href="https://launchpad.net/~dns/+archive/gnustep?field.series_filter=">GNUstep PPA</a> (Personal Package Archive) on Trisquel, gNewSense, or related distros to get the latest releases suitably packaged.</li> <li>Get the development sources for a package and build them, to help with development. Many GNU packages keep their development sources at the GNU hosting site <a href="http://savannah.gnu.org/">savannah.gnu.org</a>. Some packages use other source repositories, or have none at all. Each package's web pages should give the specifics.</li> </ul> <h3><a id="allgnupkgs">All GNU packages</a></h3> <p>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 <a href="mailto:maintainers@gnu.org"><maintainers@gnu.org></a>.</p> <p>There are also comprehensive lists of <a href="/manual/manual.html">documentation for GNU packages</a> (arranged by category), and <a href="/graphics/package-logos.html">GNU package logos</a>.</p> <!-- regenerate when official list changes, via gm generate packages html (or see the Makefile) in the womb/gnumaint CVS source directory on savannah. --> <!--#include virtual="/software/allgnupkgs.html" --> <h3>Decommissioned GNU packages</h3> <p>GNU packages are occasionally decommissioned, generally because they've been superseded by, or integrated into, other packages. 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