To use this repository, you need to add this to your sources.list: deb https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/tmp/hurd-amd64 ./ and run sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyring.debian.org 900CB024B67931D40F82304BD0178C767D069EE6 sudo apt update and then you can install hurd-amd64 packages You can also unpack packages by hand with: dpkg-deb -x foo_hurd-amd64.deb /tmp/foo