| 1 | -*- text -*- |
| 2 | How to get GNU Software by Internet FTP or by UUCP. Last updated 1999-01-20 |
| 3 | |
| 4 | * Please send improvements to this file to gnu@gnu.org. |
| 5 | |
| 6 | * No Warranties |
| 7 | |
| 8 | We distribute software in the hope that it will be useful, but without |
| 9 | any warranty. No author or distributor of this software accepts |
| 10 | responsibility to anyone for the consequences of using it or for |
| 11 | whether it serves any particular purpose or works at all, unless he |
| 12 | says so in writing. This is exactly the same warranty that the commercial |
| 13 | software companies offer: None. If the distribution is incomplete or the |
| 14 | media fails, you can always download a replacement from any of the GNU |
| 15 | mirrors, free of charge. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | * Updates |
| 18 | |
| 19 | A possibly more up-to-date list of GNU FTP sites is at |
| 20 | http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html |
| 21 | |
| 22 | * How to FTP |
| 23 | |
| 24 | Use the ftp program on your system (ask locally if you can't find it) |
| 25 | to connect to the host you are ftping from. Unless indicated |
| 26 | otherwise, login in as user "anonymous", with password: "your e-mail |
| 27 | address" and set "binary" mode (to transfer all eight bits in each |
| 28 | byte). |
| 29 | |
| 30 | ALWAYS USE BINARY/IMAGE MODE TO TRANSFER THESE FILES! |
| 31 | Text mode does not work for tar files or compressed files. |
| 32 | |
| 33 | * GNU Software and How To FTP It |
| 34 | |
| 35 | GNU software is available on ftp.gnu.org under the directory /gnu. |
| 36 | diff files to convert between versions exist for some of these |
| 37 | programs. Some programs have misc support files as well. Have a look |
| 38 | on ftp.gnu.org to see which ones. In most cases, the tar or diff |
| 39 | files are compressed with the `gzip' program; this is indicated with |
| 40 | the .gz suffix. |
| 41 | |
| 42 | Descriptions of GNU software are available at |
| 43 | http://www.gnu.org/software/software.html |
| 44 | |
| 45 | * Alternative Internet FTP Sources |
| 46 | |
| 47 | Please do NOT use a site outside your country, until you have checked |
| 48 | all sites inside your country, and then your continent. Trans-ocean |
| 49 | TCP/IP links are very expensive and usually very low speed. |
| 50 | |
| 51 | The canonical GNU ftp site is located at ftp.gnu.org/gnu. |
| 52 | You should probably use one of the many mirrors of that site - the |
| 53 | mirrors will be less busy, and you can find one closer to your site. |
| 54 | |
| 55 | * GNU FTP Site Mirror List |
| 56 | |
| 57 | United States: |
| 58 | |
| 59 | |
| 60 | California - labrea.stanford.edu/pub/gnu, gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/GNU, ftp.keystealth.org/pub/gnu |
| 61 | Hawaii - ftp.hawaii.edu/mirrors/gnu |
| 62 | Illinois - uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/gnu (Internet address 128.174.5.14) |
| 63 | Kentucky - ftp.ms.uky.edu/pub/gnu |
| 64 | Maryland - ftp.digex.net/pub/gnu (Internet address 164.109.10.23) |
| 65 | Massachusetts - aeneas.mit.edu/pub/gnu |
| 66 | Michigan - gnu.egr.msu.edu/pub/gnu |
| 67 | Missouri - wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/gnu |
| 68 | New Mexico - ftp.cs.unm.edu/mirrors/gnu |
| 69 | New York - ftp.cs.columbia.edu/archives/gnu/prep |
| 70 | New York - ftp.stealth.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.gnu.org (Internet address 206.252.192.18) |
| 71 | North Carolina - http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/gnu |
| 72 | Ohio - ftp.cis.ohio-state.edu/mirror/gnu |
| 73 | Pennsylvania - boron.club.cc.cmu.edu/gnu |
| 74 | Tennessee - sunsite.utk.edu/pub/gnu/ftp |
| 75 | Virginia - ftp.uu.net/archive/systems/gnu |
| 76 | Washington - ftp.nodomainname.net/pub/mirrors/gnu |
| 77 | Wisconsin - ftp.twtelecom.net/pub/GNU |
| 78 | |
| 79 | Africa: |
| 80 | |
| 81 | South Africa - ftp.sun.ac.za/gnu |
| 82 | |
| 83 | The Americas: |
| 84 | |
| 85 | Brazil - ftp.unicamp.br/pub/gnu |
| 86 | Brazil - master.softaplic.com.br/pub/gnu |
| 87 | Brazil - ftp.matrix.com.br/pub/gnu |
| 88 | Canada - ftp.cs.ubc.ca/mirror2/gnu |
| 89 | Chile - ftp.inf.utfsm.cl/pub/gnu (Internet address 146.83.198.3) |
| 90 | Costa Rica - sunsite.ulatina.ac.cr/Mirrors/GNU |
| 91 | Mexico - ftp.uaem.mx/pub/gnu |
| 92 | |
| 93 | Australia: |
| 94 | |
| 95 | Australia - ftp.progsoc.uts.edu.au/pub/gnu |
| 96 | Australia - mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gnu |
| 97 | |
| 98 | Asia: |
| 99 | |
| 100 | China - ftp.sea9.com/pub/gnu |
| 101 | China - ftp.cs.cuhk.edu.hk/pub/gnu/ |
| 102 | China - sunsite.ust.hk/pub/gnu/ |
| 103 | Japan - tron.um.u-tokyo.ac.jp/pub/GNU/prep |
| 104 | Japan - ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp/pub/gnu |
| 105 | Japan - mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/GNU/ |
| 106 | Japan - core.ring.gr.jp/pub/GNU |
| 107 | Japan - ftp.ring.gr.jp/pub/GNU |
| 108 | Korea - cair-archive.kaist.ac.kr/pub/gnu (Internet address 143.248.186.3) |
| 109 | Korea - ftpmirror.hanyang.ac.kr/GNU |
| 110 | Saudi Arabia - ftp.isu.net.sa/pub/mirrors/prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu |
| 111 | Taiwan - coda.nctu.edu.tw/UNIX/gnu |
| 112 | Taiwan - ftp1.sinica.edu.tw/pub3/GNU/gnu/ |
| 113 | Thailand - ftp.nectec.or.th/pub/mirrors/gnu (Internet address - 192.150.251.32) |
| 114 | |
| 115 | Europe: |
| 116 | |
| 117 | Austria - ftp.gnu.vbs.at/gnu |
| 118 | Austria - ftp.univie.ac.at/packages/gnu |
| 119 | Austria - gd.tuwien.ac.at/gnu/gnusrc |
| 120 | Belgium - ftp.be.gnu.org |
| 121 | Austria - http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/gnu/gnusrc/ |
| 122 | Czech Republic - ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/gnu/ |
| 123 | Denmark - ftp.denet.dk/mirror/ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu |
| 124 | Denmark - ftp.dkuug.dk/pub/gnu/ |
| 125 | Finland - ftp.funet.fi/pub/gnu |
| 126 | France - ftp.univ-lyon1.fr/pub/gnu |
| 127 | France - ftp.irisa.fr/pub/gnu |
| 128 | France - ftp.medasys-digital-systems.fr/pub/gnu |
| 129 | France - ftp.fuitad.net/mirrors/ftp.gnu.org |
| 130 | Germany - ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/unix/gnu/ |
| 131 | Germany - ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/gnu |
| 132 | Germany - ftp.de.uu.net/pub/gnu |
| 133 | Germany - ftp.freenet.de/pub/ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ |
| 134 | Germany - ftp.gigabell.net/pub/gnu |
| 135 | Germany - ftp.cs.uni-bonn.de/pub/gnu/ |
| 136 | Germany - ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/ftp.gnu.org |
| 137 | Germany - http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/ftp.gnu.org |
| 138 | Greece - ftp.forthnet.gr/pub/gnu |
| 139 | Greece - ftp.ntua.gr/pub/gnu |
| 140 | Greece - ftp.duth.gr/pub/gnu |
| 141 | Greece - ftp.aua.gr/pub/mirrors/GNU (Internet address 143.233.187.61) |
| 142 | Hungary - ftp.kfki.hu/pub/gnu |
| 143 | Ireland - ftp.esat.net/pub/gnu (Internet address 193.120.14.241) |
| 144 | Israel - iglu.org.il/pub/GNU |
| 145 | Italy - ftp.oasi.gpa.it/pub/gnu |
| 146 | Netherlands - ftp.eu.net/gnu (Internet address 192.16.202.1) |
| 147 | Netherlands - ftp.nluug.nl/pub/gnu |
| 148 | Netherlands - ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/gnu (Internet address 131.155.70.19) |
| 149 | Netherlands - ftp.mirror.nl/pub/mirror/gnu |
| 150 | Netherlands - ftp.nl.uu.net/pub/gnu |
| 151 | Norway - ftp.ntnu.no/pub/gnu (Internet address 129.241.11.142) |
| 152 | Norway - sunsite.uio.no/pub/gnu |
| 153 | Poland - ftp.task.gda.pl/pub/gnu |
| 154 | Poland - sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/gnu |
| 155 | Portugal - ftp.ci.uminho.pt/pub/mirrors/gnu |
| 156 | Portugal - http://ciumix.ci.uminho.pt/mirrors/gnu/ |
| 157 | Portugal - ftp.ist.utl.pt/pub/gnu |
| 158 | Portugal - mirrors.netvisao.pt/gnu |
| 159 | Romania - archive.logicnet.ro/mirrors/ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ |
| 160 | Russia - ftp.chg.ru/pub/gnu |
| 161 | Slovenia - ftp.arnes.si/gnu |
| 162 | Spain - ftp.etsimo.uniovi.es/pub/gnu |
| 163 | Spain - ftp.rediris.es/pub/gnu |
| 164 | Sweden - ftp.isy.liu.se/pub/gnu |
| 165 | Sweden - ftp.stacken.kth.se |
| 166 | Sweden - ftp.luth.se/pub/unix/gnu |
| 167 | Sweden - ftp.sunet.se/pub/gnu (Internet address 130.238.127.3) |
| 168 | Also mirrors the Mailing List Archives. |
| 169 | Sweden - ftp.chl.chalmers.se/pub/gnu/ |
| 170 | Switzerland - ftp.eunet.ch/mirrors4/gnu |
| 171 | Switzerland - sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/gnu (Internet address 193.5.24.1) |
| 172 | Turkey - ftp.baskent.edu.tr/gnu/ftp |
| 173 | United Kingdom - ftp.mcc.ac.uk/pub/gnu (Internet address 130.88.203.12) |
| 174 | United Kingdom - ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ |
| 175 | United Kingdom - ftp.warwick.ac.uk/pub/gnu (Internet address 137.205.192.13) |
| 176 | United Kingdom - SunSITE.doc.ic.ac.uk/gnu (Internet address 193.63.255.4) |
| 177 | |
| 178 | * How to FTP GNU Emacs |
| 179 | |
| 180 | Emacs is in the directory /gnu/emacs on ftp.gnu.org. The emacs |
| 181 | distribution itself has a filename in the form emacs-M.N.tar.gz, where |
| 182 | M and N stand for the version numbers. |
| 183 | |
| 184 | * Scheme and How to FTP It |
| 185 | |
| 186 | The latest distribution version of C Scheme is available via anonymous FTP |
| 187 | from swiss-ftp.ai.mit.edu in /pub/scheme-X.X/ (where X.X is some version |
| 188 | number). |
| 189 | |
| 190 | Read the files INSTALL and README in the top level C Scheme directory. |
| 191 | |
| 192 | * TeX and How to Obtain It |
| 193 | |
| 194 | We don't distribute TeX now, but it is free software. |
| 195 | |
| 196 | TeX is a document formatter that is used, among other things, by the FSF |
| 197 | for all its documentation. You will need it if you want to make printed |
| 198 | manuals. |
| 199 | |
| 200 | TeX is freely redistributable. You can get it by ftp, tape, or CD/ROM. |
| 201 | |
| 202 | ** For FTP instructions, retrieve the file |
| 203 | ftp.cs.umb.edu/pub/tex/unixtex.ftp. (We don't include it here because it |
| 204 | changes relatively frequently. Sorry.) |
| 205 | |
| 206 | ** A minimal TeX collection (enough to process Texinfo files, anyway) |
| 207 | is included on the GNU source CD-ROM. See the file ORDERS in this |
| 208 | directory for more information. |
| 209 | |
| 210 | * VMS FTP sites with GNU Software |
| 211 | You can anonymously ftp a VMS version of GNU emacs from: |
| 212 | - ftp.vms.stacken.kth.se:[.GNU-VMS] - GNU Emacs and some other VMS |
| 213 | ports (and some VMS binaries) of GNU software |
| 214 | - mango.rsmas.miami.edu has a VMS version of the GCC/G++ compiler. |
| 215 | Contact angel@flipper.miami.edu (angel li) for details. |
| 216 | - RIGEL.EFD.LTH.SE [130.235.48.3] - GNU Emacs |
| 217 | |
| 218 | * Getting GNU software in Great Britain |
| 219 | |
| 220 | jpo@cs.nott.ac.uk is willing to distribute those GNU sources he has |
| 221 | available. The smaller items are available from the info-server (send |
| 222 | to info-server@cs.nott.ac.uk); the larger items by negotiation. Due to |
| 223 | communication costs this service is only available within the UK. |
| 224 | |
| 225 | BattenIG@computer-science.birmingham.ac.uk (aka |
| 226 | I.G.Batten@fulcrum.bt.co.uk) is also willing to distribute those GNU |
| 227 | sources he has. |
| 228 | |
| 229 | wizards@doc.ic.ac.uk is willing to distribute those GNU sources they have |
| 230 | along with most other freely distributable software. The SunSITE archive |
| 231 | on SunSITE.doc.ic.ac.uk (193.63.255.4) is available via ftp, http, fsp, |
| 232 | gopher, NFS and Lanmanger over IP (SMB), and telnet. |
| 233 | |
| 234 | UK sites with just anonymous FTP access are in the above list. |
| 235 | |
| 236 | * Getting GNU software via UUCP |
| 237 | |
| 238 | OSU is distributing via UUCP: most GNU software, MIT C Scheme, |
| 239 | Compress, News, RN, NNTP, Patch, some Appletalk stuff, some of the |
| 240 | Internet Requests For Comment (RFC) et al.. See their periodic |
| 241 | postings on the Usenet newsgroup comp.sources.d for informational |
| 242 | updates. Current details from <staff@cis.ohio-state.edu> or |
| 243 | <...!osu-cis!staff>. |
| 244 | |
| 245 | Information on how to uucp some GNU programs is available via |
| 246 | electronic mail from: uunet!hutch!barber, hqda-ai!merlin, acornrc!bob, |
| 247 | hao!scicom!qetzal!upba!ugn!nepa!denny, ncar!noao!asuvax!hrc!dan, |
| 248 | bigtex!james (aka james@bigtex.cactus.org), oli-stl!root, |
| 249 | src@contrib.de (Germany), toku@dit.co.jp (Japan) and info@ftp.uu.net. |
| 250 | |
| 251 | * If You Like The Software |
| 252 | |
| 253 | If you like the software developed and distributed by the Free |
| 254 | Software Foundation, please express your satisfaction with a donation. |
| 255 | Your donations will help to support the Foundation and make our future |
| 256 | efforts successful, including a complete development and operating |
| 257 | system, called GNU (Gnu's Not Unix), which will run Unix user |
| 258 | programs. For more information on GNU and the Foundation, contact us |
| 259 | at the above address, or see our web site at http://www.gnu.org. |
| 260 | |
| 261 | Ordering a GNU Source Code CD-ROM or Source Code CD-ROM Subscription |
| 262 | is a good way for your organization to help support our work. |