docs: freshen up the download/unpack instructions

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Brian Paul
2012-04-19 08:56:02 -06:00
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@@ -20,26 +20,12 @@ When a new release is coming, release candidates (betas) may be found
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<p>
The Mesa package is named MesaLib-x.y.z.{tar.bz2, tar.gz, zip} where x.y.z
is the version. There are three types of compressed archives.
</p>
<p>
In the past, there was also MesaGLUT-x.y.z.{tar.bz2, tar.gz, zip} packages which
contained Mark Kilgard's GLUT library.
Most Linux distributions include an implementation of GLUT (such as freeglut).
</p>
<p>
In the past, the Mesa demos collection was distributed as
MesaDemos-x.y.z.{tar.bz2, tar.gz, zip}.
Now, the
<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/demos/" target="_parent">
Mesa demos</a> are distributed separately.
</p>
<H1>Unpacking</H1>
<p>
Mesa releases are available in three formats: .tar.bz2, .tar.gz, and .zip
</p>
<p>
To unpack .tar.gz files:
</p>
@@ -86,10 +72,6 @@ src/glu - libGLU source code
src/glx - sources for building libGL with full GLX and DRI support
</pre>
If you downloaded and unpacked the MesaGLUT.x.y.z package:
<pre>
src/glut - GLUT library source code
</pre>
<p>
Proceed to the <a href="install.html">compilation and installation
@@ -97,5 +79,24 @@ instructions</a>.
</p>
<H1>Demos and GLUT</H2>
<p>
A package of Mark Kilgard's GLUT library is available
<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/glut/" target="_parent">here</a>
</p>
<p>
The Mesa demos collection is available
<a href="ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/demos/" target="_parent">here</a>
</p>
<p>
In the past, GLUT and the Mesa demos were released in conjunction with
Mesa releases. But since GLUT and the demos change infrequently, they
were split off some time ago.
</p>
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