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  11   <h1>The Mesa 3D Graphics Library</h1>
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  17 <h1>Downloading</h1>
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  19 <p>
  20 Primary Mesa download site:
  21 <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/">ftp.freedesktop.org</a> (FTP)
  22 or <a href="https://mesa.freedesktop.org/archive/">mesa.freedesktop.org</a>
  23 (HTTPS).
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  26 <p>
  27 Starting with the first release of 2017, Mesa's version scheme is
  28 year-based. Filenames are in the form <tt>mesa-Y.N.P.tar.gz</tt>, where
  29 <tt>Y</tt> is the year (two digits), <tt>N</tt> is an incremental number
  30 (starting at 0) and <tt>P</tt> is the patch number (0 for the first
  31 release, 1 for the first patch after that).
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  34 <p>
  35 When a new release is coming, release candidates (betas) may be found
  36 in the same directory, and are recognisable by the
  37 <tt>mesa-Y.N.P-<b>rc</b>X.tar.gz</tt> filename.
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  41 <h1>Unpacking</h1>
  42
  43 <p>
  44 Mesa releases are available in two formats: <tt>.tar.xz</tt> and <tt>.tar.gz</tt>.
  45 </p>
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  47 <p>
  48 To unpack the tarball:
  49 <pre>
  50         tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.xz
  51 </pre>
  52 or
  53 <pre>
  54         tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.gz
  55 </pre>
  56 </p>
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  59 <h1>Contents</h1>
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  61 <p>
  62 Proceed to the <a href="install.html">compilation and installation
  63 instructions</a>.
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  67 <h1>Demos, GLUT, and GLU</h1>
  68
  69 <p>
  70 A package of SGI's GLU library is available
  71 <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glu/">here</a>
  72 </p>
  73
  74 <p>
  75 A package of Mark Kilgard's GLUT library is available
  76 <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glut/">here</a>
  77 </p>
  78
  79 <p>
  80 The Mesa demos collection is available
  81 <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/demos/">here</a>
  82 </p>
  83
  84 <p>
  85 In the past, GLUT, GLU and the Mesa demos were released in conjunction with
  86 Mesa releases.  But since GLUT, GLU and the demos change infrequently, they
  87 were split off into their own git repositories:
  88
  89 <a href="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/glut">GLUT</a>,
  90 <a href="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/glu">GLU</a> and
  91 <a href="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/demos">Demos</a>,
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