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11  <h1>The Mesa 3D Graphics Library</h1>
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17<h1>Downloading</h1>
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19<p>
20Primary Mesa download site:
21<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/">ftp.freedesktop.org</a> (FTP)
22or <a href="https://mesa.freedesktop.org/archive/">mesa.freedesktop.org</a>
23(HTTPS).
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26<p>
27Starting with the first release of 2017, Mesa's version scheme is
28year-based. Filenames are in the form <tt>mesa-Y.N.P.tar.gz</tt>, where
29<tt>Y</tt> is the year (two digits), <tt>N</tt> is an incremental number
30(starting at 0) and <tt>P</tt> is the patch number (0 for the first
31release, 1 for the first patch after that).
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35When a new release is coming, release candidates (betas) may be found
36in the same directory, and are recognisable by the
37<tt>mesa-Y.N.P-<b>rc</b>X.tar.gz</tt> filename.
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41<h1>Unpacking</h1>
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43<p>
44Mesa releases are available in two formats: <tt>.tar.xz</tt> and <tt>.tar.gz</tt>.
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47<p>
48To unpack the tarball:
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50<pre>
51	tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.xz
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53<p>or</p>
54<pre>
55	tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.gz
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59<h1>Contents</h1>
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61<p>
62Proceed to the <a href="install.html">compilation and installation
63instructions</a>.
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66
67<h1>Demos, GLUT, and GLU</h1>
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69<p>
70A package of SGI's GLU library is available
71<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glu/">here</a>
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74<p>
75A package of Mark Kilgard's GLUT library is available
76<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glut/">here</a>
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79<p>
80The Mesa demos collection is available
81<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/demos/">here</a>
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84<p>
85In the past, GLUT, GLU and the Mesa demos were released in conjunction with
86Mesa releases.  But since GLUT, GLU and the demos change infrequently, they
87were split off into their own git repositories:
88
89<a href="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/glut">GLUT</a>,
90<a href="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/glu">GLU</a> and
91<a href="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/demos">Demos</a>,
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