1 Downloading and Unpacking
2 =========================
7 You can download the released versions of Mesa via
8 `HTTPS <https://mesa.freedesktop.org/archive/>`__ or
9 `FTP <ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/>`__.
11 Starting with the first release of 2017, Mesa's version scheme is
12 year-based. Filenames are in the form ``mesa-Y.N.P.tar.gz``, where ``Y``
13 is the year (two digits), ``N`` is an incremental number (starting at 0)
14 and ``P`` is the patch number (0 for the first release, 1 for the first
17 When a new release is coming, release candidates (betas) may be found in
18 the same directory, and are recognisable by the
19 ``mesa-Y.N.P-rcX.tar.gz`` filename.
24 Mesa releases are available in two formats: ``.tar.xz`` and ``.tar.gz``.
26 To unpack the tarball:
28 .. code-block:: console
30 tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.xz
34 .. code-block:: console
36 tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.gz
41 Proceed to the :doc:`compilation and installation
42 instructions <install>`.
47 A package of SGI's GLU library is available
48 `here <ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glu/>`__
50 A package of Mark Kilgard's GLUT library is available
51 `here <ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glut/>`__
53 The Mesa demos collection is available
54 `here <ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/demos/>`__
56 In the past, GLUT, GLU and the Mesa demos were released in conjunction
57 with Mesa releases. But since GLUT, GLU and the demos change
58 infrequently, they were split off into their own git repositories:
59 `GLUT <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/glut>`__,
60 `GLU <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/glu>`__ and
61 `Demos <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/demos>`__,