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+ <title>Downloading and Unpacking</title>
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- <h1>The Mesa 3D Graphics Library</h1>
+ The Mesa 3D Graphics Library
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-<h1>Downloading</h1>
+<h1>Downloading and Unpacking</h1>
+
+<h2>Downloading</h2>
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-Primary Mesa download site:
-<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/">ftp.freedesktop.org</a> (FTP)
-or <a href="https://mesa.freedesktop.org/archive/">mesa.freedesktop.org</a>
-(HTTPS).
+You can download the released versions of Mesa via
+<a href="https://mesa.freedesktop.org/archive/">HTTPS</a>
+or
+<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/">FTP</a>.
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Starting with the first release of 2017, Mesa's version scheme is
-year-based. Filenames are in the form <tt>mesa-Y.N.P.tar.gz</tt>, where
-<tt>Y</tt> is the year (two digits), <tt>N</tt> is an incremental number
-(starting at 0) and <tt>P</tt> is the patch number (0 for the first
+year-based. Filenames are in the form <code>mesa-Y.N.P.tar.gz</code>, where
+<code>Y</code> is the year (two digits), <code>N</code> is an incremental number
+(starting at 0) and <code>P</code> is the patch number (0 for the first
release, 1 for the first patch after that).
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When a new release is coming, release candidates (betas) may be found
in the same directory, and are recognisable by the
-<tt>mesa-Y.N.P-<b>rc</b>X.tar.gz</tt> filename.
+<code>mesa-Y.N.P-<b>rc</b>X.tar.gz</code> filename.
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-<h1>Unpacking</h1>
+<h2>Unpacking</h2>
<p>
-Mesa releases are available in two formats: <tt>.tar.xz</tt> and <tt>.tar.gz</tt>.
+Mesa releases are available in two formats: <code>.tar.xz</code> and <code>.tar.gz</code>.
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To unpack the tarball:
+</p>
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tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.xz
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-or
+<p>or</p>
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tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.gz
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-</p>
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-<h1>Contents</h1>
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-<p>
-After unpacking you'll have these files and directories (among others):
-</p>
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-autogen.sh - Autoconf script for *nix systems
-scons/ - SCons script for Windows builds
-include/ - GL header (include) files
-bin/ - shell scripts for making shared libraries, etc
-docs/ - documentation
-src/ - source code for libraries
-src/mesa - sources for the main Mesa library and device drivers
-src/gallium - sources for Gallium and Gallium drivers
-src/glx - sources for building libGL with full GLX and DRI support
-</pre>
+<h2>Contents</h2>
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Proceed to the <a href="install.html">compilation and installation
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-<h1>Demos, GLUT, and GLU</h1>
+<h2>Demos, GLUT, and GLU</h2>
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A package of SGI's GLU library is available
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