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   9 <H1>Downloading</H1>
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  11 <p>
  12 Primary Mesa download site:
  13 <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/"
  14 target="_parent">freedesktop.org</a> (FTP)
  15 </p>
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  17 <p>
  18 When a new release is coming, release candidates (betas) may be found
  19 <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/beta/" target="_parent">here</a>.
  20 </p>
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  23 <p>
  24 The Mesa package is named MesaLib-x.y.z.{tar.bz2, tar.gz, zip} where x.y.z
  25 is the version.  There are three types of compressed archives.
  26 </p>
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  28 There's also the MesaGLUT-x.y.z.{tar.bz2, tar.gz, zip} packages which
  29 contain Mark Kilgard's GLUT library.
  30 This is optional.
  31 Most Linux distributions include an implementation of GLUT (such as freeglut).
  32 </p>
  33 <p>
  34 In the past, the Mesa demos collection was distributed as
  35 MesaDemos-x.y.z.{tar.bz2, tar.gz, zip}.
  36 Now, the
  37 <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/demos/" target="_parent">
  38 Mesa demos</a> are distributed separately.
  39 </p>
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  42 <H1>Unpacking</H1>
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  44 <p>
  45 To unpack .tar.gz files:
  46 </p>
  47 <pre>
  48         tar zxf MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz
  49 </pre>
  50 or
  51 <pre>
  52         gzcat MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xf -
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  54 or
  55 <pre>
  56         gunzip MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaLib-x.y.z.tar
  57 </pre>
  58 <p>
  59 To unpack .tar.bz2 files:
  60 </p>
  61 <pre>
  62         bunzip2 -c MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xf -
  63 </pre>
  64 <p>
  65 To unpack .zip files:
  66 </p>
  67 <pre>
  68         unzip MesaLib-x.y.z.zip
  69 </pre>
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  72 <h1>Contents</h1>
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  74 <p>
  75 After unpacking you'll have these files and directories (among others):
  76 </p>
  77 <pre>
  78 Makefile        - top-level Makefile for most systems
  79 configs/        - makefile parameter files for various systems
  80 include/        - GL header (include) files
  81 bin/            - shell scripts for making shared libraries, etc
  82 docs/           - documentation
  83 src/            - source code for libraries
  84 src/mesa        - sources for the main Mesa library and device drivers
  85 src/gallium     - sources for Gallium and Gallium drivers
  86 src/glu         - libGLU source code
  87 src/glx         - sources for building libGL with full GLX and DRI support
  88 src/glw         - Xt/Motif/OpenGL widget code
  89 </pre>
  90
  91 If you downloaded and unpacked the MesaGLUT.x.y.z package:
  92 <pre>
  93 src/glut        - GLUT library source code
  94 </pre>
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  96 <p>
  97 Proceed to the <a href="install.html">compilation and installation
  98 instructions</a>.
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