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9<H1>Downloading</H1>
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12Primary Mesa download site:
13<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/"
14target="_parent">freedesktop.org</a> (FTP)
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18When 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>.
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23<H1>Unpacking</H1>
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26Mesa releases are available in three formats: .tar.bz2, .tar.gz, and .zip
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30To unpack .tar.gz files:
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32<pre>
33	tar zxf MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz
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37	gzcat MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xf -
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41	gunzip MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz ; tar xf MesaLib-x.y.z.tar
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44To unpack .tar.bz2 files:
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47	bunzip2 -c MesaLib-x.y.z.tar.gz | tar xf -
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50To unpack .zip files:
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53	unzip MesaLib-x.y.z.zip
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57<h1>Contents</h1>
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60After unpacking you'll have these files and directories (among others):
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63Makefile	- top-level Makefile for most systems
64configs/	- makefile parameter files for various systems
65include/	- GL header (include) files
66bin/		- shell scripts for making shared libraries, etc
67docs/		- documentation
68src/		- source code for libraries
69src/mesa	- sources for the main Mesa library and device drivers
70src/gallium     - sources for Gallium and Gallium drivers
71src/glu		- libGLU source code
72src/glx		- sources for building libGL with full GLX and DRI support
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77Proceed to the <a href="install.html">compilation and installation
78instructions</a>.
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82<H1>Demos and GLUT</H2>
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85A package of Mark Kilgard's GLUT library is available
86<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glut/" target="_parent">here</a>
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90The Mesa demos collection is available
91<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/demos/" target="_parent">here</a>
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95In the past, GLUT and the Mesa demos were released in conjunction with
96Mesa releases.  But since GLUT and the demos change infrequently, they
97were split off some time ago.
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