### 1.1 Download the source tarball ¶

GNU MDK is distributed as a source tarball available for download in the following URLs:

- ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/mdk
- GNU mirrors

The above sites contain the latest stable releases of MDK. The development branch is available as a Git repository located at1

- git://git.savannah.gnu.org/mdk.git

After you have downloaded the source tarball, unpack it in a directory of your choice using the command:

    tar xfvz mdk-X.Y.tar.gz

where X.Y stands for the downloaded version (the current stable release being version 1.3.1).