<title>Getting the Source</title>

<para>

The <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> &version; sources can be obtained from the

website:<ulink url="https://www.postgresql.org/download/"></ulink>. You

you have obtainedthefile, unpack it:

Theversion control repository for<productname>PostgreSQL</productname>

<ulink url="https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=summary"></ulink>;

You can obtain a clone oftherepository by running

<screen>

<userinput>gunzip postgresql-&version;.tar.gz</userinput>

<userinput>tar xf postgresql-&version;.tar</userinput>

<userinput>git clone https://git.postgresql.org/git/postgresql.git</userinput>

</screen>

(Use <command>bunzip2</command> instead of <command>gunzip</command> if

you have the <filename>.bz2</filename> file. Also, note that most

modern versions of <command>tar</command> can unpack compressed archives

directly, so you don't really need the

separate <command>gunzip</command> or <command>bunzip2</command> step.)

This will create a directory

<filename>postgresql-&version;</filename> under the current directory

with the <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> sources.

Change into that directory for the rest

of the installation procedure.

This will create a directory <filename>postgresql</filename> under the current

directory with the <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> sources.

Change into that directory for the rest of the installation procedure.

See <xref linkend="git"/> for further information.

</para>

<para>

You can also get the source directly from the version control repository, see

<xref linkend="sourcerepo"/>.

Alternatively, source code for the released versions can be obtained

from the download section of our website:

<ulink url="https://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/"></ulink>.

Download then

<filename>postgresql-<replaceable>version</replaceable>.tar.gz</filename>

or <filename>postgresql-<replaceable>version</replaceable>.tar.bz2</filename>

you're interested in, then unpack it:

<screen>

<userinput>tar xf postgresql-<replaceable>version</replaceable>.tar.bz2</userinput>

</screen>

This will create a directory

<filename>postgresql-<replaceable>version</replaceable></filename> under

the current directory with the <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> sources.

Change into that directory for the rest of the installation procedure.

</para>

</sect1>