This table lists official GNU packages with links to their primary documentation, where available. When a package has several associated manuals, they are all listed. If a package has no specific manual online, the link just goes to the package's home page (which is also linked to explicitly).
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- APL
- APL interpreter. [apl home]
- Autoconf
- Create source code configuration scripts. [autoconf home]
- Autoconf-archive
- Collection of freely reusable Autoconf macros. [autoconf-archive home]
- AutoGen
- Automated program generator. [autogen home]
- Automake
- Making GNU standards-compliant Makefiles. [automake home]
- Bash
- The GNU Bourne-Again SHell. [bash home]
- Binutils (as bfd binutils gprof gprofng ld)
- Binary utilities: bfd gas gprof gprofng ld. [binutils home]
- Bison
- Parser generator.
Available in print: The Bison Manual. [bison home] - GNU C Introduction and Reference
- Introduction for learning the GNU C language, and reference for it. [c-intro-and-ref home]
- Ccide
- Decision table code generator. [ccide home]
- Cflow
- Create a graph of control flow within a program. [cflow home]
- Cim
- Simula compiler. [cim home]
- CLISP
- A Common Lisp implementation. [clisp home]
- Complexity
- Analyze complexity of C functions. [complexity home]
- Config
- Ubiquitious config.guess and config.sub scripts. [config home]
- Coreutils
- Core GNU utilities (file, text, shell). [coreutils home]
- Cppi
- Indent C preprocessor directives to reflect nesting and more. [cppi home]
- DDD
- Graphical front-end for GDB and other debuggers. [ddd home]
- DejaGnu
- GNU software testing framework. [dejagnu home]
- DJGPP
- Development system and GNU utilities for DOS on x86 hardware. [djgpp home]
- EDMA
- Object-oriented component-based development environment. [edma home]
- Epsilon
- A purely functional programming language. [epsilon home]
- Findutils
- Operating on files matching given criteria. [findutils home]
- GCC (cpp cppinternals gcc gccint gfc-internals gfortran gnat-style gnat_rm gnat_ugn libgomp libiberty libstdc++)
- GNU Compiler Collection.
Available in print: Using GCC: The GNU Compiler Collection Reference Manual. [gcc home] - GNU Common Lisp
- A Common Lisp implementation. [gcl home]
- GDB (stabs)
- The GNU debugger.
Available in print: Debugging with GDB: The GNU Source-Level Debugger. [gdb home] - Gengen
- A parameterized-text-generator generator based on a template. [gengen home]
- Gengetopt
- Create parsers for command line options. [gengetopt home]
- Gforth
- Forth interpreter. [gforth home]
- Global
- Cross-environment source code tag system. [global home]
- GNAT
- Ada compiler. [gnat home]
- GNATS
- GNU problem report and bug management system. [gnats home]
- Gnatsweb
- Web interface to GNATS. [gnatsweb home]
- GNU C reference manual
- Reference manual for the C programming language. [gnu-c-manual home]
- GnuCOBOL
- A modern COBOL compiler. [gnucobol home]
- GNUlib
- Source files to share among distributions. [gnulib home]
- Mach
- Microkernel of the GNU system. [gnumach home]
- GNUprologjava (gnuprologjava)
- Implementation of Prolog as a Java library. [gnuprologjava home]
- GNUstep
- Object-oriented application development environment. [gnustep home]
- Gorm
- GNUstep interface designer. [gorm home]
- Gperf
- Perfect hash function generator. [gperf home]
- Gprofng-gui
- Full-fledged graphical interface to operate gprofng. [gprofng-gui home]
- Gprolog
- Prolog compiler. [gprolog home]
- Greg
- Software testing framework. [greg home]
- Guile
- Scheme implementation intended especially for extensions. [guile home]
- Guile-gnome (atk clutter-glx clutter corba gconf gdk glib gnome-vfs gobject gtk libglade libgnome libgnomecanvas libgnomeui pango pangocairo)
- Guile interface for GTK+ programming for GNOME. [guile-gnome home]
- Guile-rpc
- Pure Scheme implementation for the ONC RPC standard. [guile-rpc home]
- Hello
- Hello, GNU world: An example GNU package. [hello home]
- Hurd
- The kernel servers for the GNU operating system. [hurd home]
- Idutils
- Identifier database utilities. [idutils home]
- Indent
- Code reformatter. [indent home]
- Jitter
- A generator for efficient language virtual machines. [jitter home]
- Kawa
- Java framework and implementation of Scheme, Elisp, and more. [kawa home]
- Kopi
- Java development environment for interactive database applications. [kopi home]
- Liberty Eiffel
- Eiffel compiler. [liberty-eiffel home]
- Libsigsegv
- Library for handling page faults. [libsigsegv home]
- Linux-libre
- 100% free redistribution of a cleaned Linux kernel. [linux-libre home]
- Lispintro
- Introduction to programming in Emacs Lisp.
Available in print: An Introduction to Emacs Lisp. [lispintro home] - Make
- Remake files automatically. [make home]
- MARST
- Algol-to-C translator. [marst home]
- Mig
- Mach 3.0 interface generator for the Hurd. [mig home]
- MIT/GNU Scheme (mit-scheme-blowfish mit-scheme-ffi mit-scheme-gdbm mit-scheme-imail mit-scheme-ref mit-scheme-sos mit-scheme-user)
- A Scheme implementation with integrated editor and debugger. [mit-scheme home]
- Pascal
- GNU Pascal compiler. [pascal home]
- Patch
- Apply differences to originals, with optional backups. [patch home]
- Pexec
- Execute a command in parallel on multiple hosts. [pexec home]
- Pies
- Program invocation and execution supervisor. [pies home]
- Poke
- Editing of arbitrary binary data. [poke home]
- Pythonwebkit
- W3C DOM bindings to Webkit for use with GTK and more. [pythonwebkit home]
- Qexo
- Java implementation of XQuery using GNU Kawa. [qexo home]
- Rush
- Restricted user (login) shell. [rush home]
- Sather
- An object-oriented language designed to be simple, efficient, safe. [sather home]
- SCM
- A Scheme implementation. [scm home]
- Screen
- Full-screen window manager providing multiple terminals. [screen home]
- Shmm
- Shared memory manager utility. [shmm home]
- Shtool
- Compilation of utility shell scripts into a shell tool. [shtool home]
- SLIB
- Portable library for Scheme. [slib home]
- Smalltalk (gst-base gst-libs gst)
- Smalltalk environment. [smalltalk home]
- Superopt
- Super-optimizer of given functions. [superopt home]
- Swbis
- POSIX software packaging utilities. [swbis home]
- Teseq
- Analyze files with terminal control sequences, for debugging. [teseq home]
- Vmgen
- Generic virtual machine generation, used by gforth. [vmgen home]
- Womb
- Repository for GNU work not intended to be separate packages. [womb home]
- Xnee
- Record, replay and distribute user actions under X11. [xnee home]