Introduction

Easy; Copland comes with Ubuntu's "hfsutils" and "hfsplus" packages, which provide a command-line interface to HFS drives.

It also comes with xHFS, which is a GUI frontend for "hfsutils".

BUT...

xHFS seems to be very unstable. In fact, these days it seems to crash upon trying to mount such a drive.

I have started work on a replacement for xHFS, using a more native-looking toolkit, friendly single-pane design, and easy-to-use Mount dialog. This has the view of eventually being a powerful HFS GUI.

Source code now up at HfsBrowserSourceCode

There are bugs in this program; please put this program together, use it, work out what doesn't work, and give me some precise information or fixes. That's the open-source spirit!

(The Fuse-based middleware that was proposed has now been abandoned; it would be too inflexible and Fuse has too little Python-related documentation.)