1 Downloading and Unpacking
2 =========================
7 You can download the released versions of Mesa via
8 `HTTPS <https://mesa.freedesktop.org/archive/>`__ or
9 `FTP <ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/>`__.
11 Our release tarballs are GPG-signed, and the public keys are available
12 here: `release-maintainers-keys.asc <release-maintainers-keys.asc>`__.
14 Starting with the first release of 2017, Mesa's version scheme is
15 year-based. Filenames are in the form ``mesa-Y.N.P.tar.gz``, where ``Y``
16 is the year (two digits), ``N`` is an incremental number (starting at 0)
17 and ``P`` is the patch number (0 for the first release, 1 for the first
20 When a new release is coming, release candidates (betas) may be found in
21 the same directory, and are recognizable by the
22 ``mesa-Y.N.P-rcX.tar.gz`` filename.
27 Mesa releases are available in two formats: ``.tar.xz`` and ``.tar.gz``.
29 To unpack the tarball:
31 .. code-block:: console
33 tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.xz
37 .. code-block:: console
39 tar xf mesa-Y.N.P.tar.gz
44 Proceed to the :doc:`compilation and installation
45 instructions <install>`.
50 A package of SGI's GLU library is available
51 `here <ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glu/>`__
53 A package of Mark Kilgard's GLUT library is available
54 `here <ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glut/>`__
56 The Mesa demos collection is available
57 `here <ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/demos/>`__
59 In the past, GLUT, GLU and the Mesa demos were released in conjunction
60 with Mesa releases. But since GLUT, GLU and the demos change
61 infrequently, they were split off into their own Git repositories:
62 `GLUT <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/glut>`__,
63 `GLU <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/glu>`__ and
64 `Demos <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/demos>`__,