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  10 <h1>Downloading</h1>
  11
  12 <p>
  13 Primary Mesa download site:
  14 <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/"
  15 target="_parent">freedesktop.org</a> (FTP)
  16 </p>
  17
  18 <p>
  19 When a new release is coming, release candidates (betas) may be found
  20 <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/beta/" target="_parent">here</a>.
  21 </p>
  22
  23
  24 <h1>Unpacking</h1>
  25
  26 <p>
  27 Mesa releases are available in three formats: .tar.bz2, .tar.gz, and .zip
  28 </p>
  29
  30 <p>
  31 To unpack .tar.gz files:
  32 </p>
  33 <pre>
  34         tar zxf MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz
  35 </pre>
  36 or
  37 <pre>
  38         gzcat MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xf -
  39 </pre>
  40 or
  41 <pre>
  42         gunzip MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaLib-x.y.z.tar
  43 </pre>
  44 <p>
  45 To unpack .tar.bz2 files:
  46 </p>
  47 <pre>
  48         bunzip2 -c MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xf -
  49 </pre>
  50 <p>
  51 To unpack .zip files:
  52 </p>
  53 <pre>
  54         unzip MesaLib-x.y.z.zip
  55 </pre>
  56
  57
  58 <h1>Contents</h1>
  59
  60 <p>
  61 After unpacking you'll have these files and directories (among others):
  62 </p>
  63 <pre>
  64 Makefile        - top-level Makefile for most systems
  65 configs/        - makefile parameter files for various systems
  66 include/        - GL header (include) files
  67 bin/            - shell scripts for making shared libraries, etc
  68 docs/           - documentation
  69 src/            - source code for libraries
  70 src/mesa        - sources for the main Mesa library and device drivers
  71 src/gallium     - sources for Gallium and Gallium drivers
  72 src/glu         - libGLU source code
  73 src/glx         - sources for building libGL with full GLX and DRI support
  74 </pre>
  75
  76
  77 <p>
  78 Proceed to the <a href="install.html">compilation and installation
  79 instructions</a>.
  80 </p>
  81
  82
  83 <h1>Demos and GLUT</h1>
  84
  85 <p>
  86 A package of Mark Kilgard's GLUT library is available
  87 <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glut/" target="_parent">here</a>
  88 </p>
  89
  90 <p>
  91 The Mesa demos collection is available
  92 <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/demos/" target="_parent">here</a>
  93 </p>
  94
  95 <p>
  96 In the past, GLUT and the Mesa demos were released in conjunction with
  97 Mesa releases.  But since GLUT and the demos change infrequently, they
  98 were split off some time ago.
  99 </p>
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