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  11   The Mesa 3D Graphics Library
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  17 <h1>Downloading and Unpacking</h1>
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  19 <h2>Downloading</h2>
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  21 <p>
  22 Primary Mesa download site:
  23 <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/">ftp.freedesktop.org</a> (FTP)
  24 or <a href="https://mesa.freedesktop.org/archive/">mesa.freedesktop.org</a>
  25 (HTTPS).
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  28 <p>
  29 Starting with the first release of 2017, Mesa's version scheme is
  30 year-based. Filenames are in the form <code>mesa-Y.N.P.tar.gz</code>, where
  31 <code>Y</code> is the year (two digits), <code>N</code> is an incremental number
  32 (starting at 0) and <code>P</code> is the patch number (0 for the first
  33 release, 1 for the first patch after that).
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  36 <p>
  37 When a new release is coming, release candidates (betas) may be found
  38 in the same directory, and are recognisable by the
  39 <code>mesa-Y.N.P-<b>rc</b>X.tar.gz</code> filename.
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  43 <h2>Unpacking</h2>
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  45 <p>
  46 Mesa releases are available in two formats: <code>.tar.xz</code> and <code>.tar.gz</code>.
  47 </p>
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  49 <p>
  50 To unpack the tarball:
  51 </p>
  52 <pre>
  53         tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.xz
  54 </pre>
  55 <p>or</p>
  56 <pre>
  57         tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.gz
  58 </pre>
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  60
  61 <h2>Contents</h2>
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  63 <p>
  64 Proceed to the <a href="install.html">compilation and installation
  65 instructions</a>.
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  69 <h2>Demos, GLUT, and GLU</h2>
  70
  71 <p>
  72 A package of SGI's GLU library is available
  73 <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glu/">here</a>
  74 </p>
  75
  76 <p>
  77 A package of Mark Kilgard's GLUT library is available
  78 <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glut/">here</a>
  79 </p>
  80
  81 <p>
  82 The Mesa demos collection is available
  83 <a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/demos/">here</a>
  84 </p>
  85
  86 <p>
  87 In the past, GLUT, GLU and the Mesa demos were released in conjunction with
  88 Mesa releases.  But since GLUT, GLU and the demos change infrequently, they
  89 were split off into their own git repositories:
  90
  91 <a href="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/glut">GLUT</a>,
  92 <a href="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/glu">GLU</a> and
  93 <a href="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/demos">Demos</a>,
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