The other form is anonymous CVS, and several flavors/versions of Amanda are available here. If your host has the cvs package available, you can use cvs commands to download Amanda sources directly to your local disk.

SourceForge has an instruction page for using cvs with the Amanda project, but it assumes a simple cvs tree and assumes too much that doesn't hold true for Amanda's tree. Those instructions are still useful, through, and may be found at http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=120, and from there you can browse Amanda's cvs tree at http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/?cvsroot=amanda

I wanted to build the 2-4-2 version on my linux box. Here's how I did it:

 su - amanda
 mkdir src
 cd src
  cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.amanda.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/amanda \
    co -r amanda-242-branch amanda
 cd src/amanda
 ./autogen
 ./configure  --with-user=amanda --with-group=backup --with-smbclient             
 make
 su root
 make install

(I've manually broken the cvs command into two pieces at the \ character, it's one long command. I pulled all of these commands out of my keyboard history buffer, so they did work for me!)

In cvs-speak, "amanda" is the cvs module name, and "amanda-242-branch" is the tag. Knowing this should help you navigate through SourceForge's CVSWeb pages if you decide to browse them yourself.

Alexandre says the following packages are available. The example above downloaded the Amanda 2-4-2beta package. If that isn't want you wanted, replace the last of it (the bit after the \) with the right side of the following table:

  Amanda 2.4.1stable   co -r amanda-241-branch amanda
  Amanda 2.4.2beta     co -r amanda-242-branch amanda
  Amanda 2.5alpha      co amanda

The INSTALL instructions you'll find in the resulting sources assume the 'autogen' command has already been run by one of the Amanda developers, so it isn't listed in the instructions. You have to run it yourself. It creates the 'configure' command. From there you can follow the INSTALL file.

If your machine doesn't have autogen, well... punt and try for a tarball package instead.