Direct Download

Thrift snapshots are available for direct download from gitweb.thrift-rpc.org.

wget -O thrift.tgz "http://gitweb.thrift-rpc.org/?p=thrift.git;a=snapshot;h=HEAD;sf=tgz"
tar -xzf thrift.tgz
cd thrift

SVN Checkout

Alternatively, you may checkout Thrift from the Apache SVN repository.

svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/thrift/trunk thrift
cd thrift