$ cd /opt/cassandra/
$ wget http://apache.webxcreen.org//cassandra/0.8.6/apache-cassandra-0.8.6-src.tar.gz
$ tar xvzf apache-cassandra-0.8.6-src.tar.gz
$ cd apache-cassandra-0.8.6-src/
$ ant

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$ mkdir /opt/cassandra/thrift
$ cd /opt/cassandra/thrift
$ wget http://apache.webxcreen.org//thrift/0.7.0/thrift-0.7.0.tar.gz
$ tar xvzf thrift-0.7.0.tar.gz