Install Apache Thrift on Fedora OS

Thrift is an interface definition language and binary communication protocol that is used to define and create services for numerous languages. It is used as a remote procedure call (RPC) framework and was developed at Facebook for "scalable cross-language services development". It combines a software stack with a code generation engine to build services that work efficiently to a varying degree and seamlessly between C# , C++ (on POSIX-compliant systems), Cappuccino, Cocoa, Delphi, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, Node.js, OCaml, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Smalltalk.

You can follow below steps to install Apache Thrift in Fedora

1. Download Apache Thrift

2. Install java libraries

sudo yum install automake libtool flex bison pkgconfig gcc-c++ boost-devel libevent-devel zlib-devel python-devel ruby-devel

checking for BN_init in -lcrypto... no
configure: error: "Error: libcrypto required." 

sudo yum install openssl-devel

(if java is not there install)

sudo yum install ant (to update ant version) 

finally

./configure in the thrift folder thrift 0.9.1

Building C++ Library ......... : yes
Building C (GLib) Library .... : yes
Building Java Library ........ : yes
Building C# Library .......... : no
Building Python Library ...... : yes
Building Ruby Library ........ : no
Building Haskell Library ..... : no
Building Perl Library ........ : no
Building PHP Library ......... : no
Building Erlang Library ...... : no
Building Go Library .......... : no
Building D Library ........... : no

C++ Library:
   Build TZlibTransport ...... : yes
   Build TNonblockingServer .. : yes
   Build TQTcpServer (Qt) .... : no

Java Library:
   Using javac ............... : javac
   Using java ................ : java
   Using ant ................. : /bin/ant

Python Library:
   Using Python .............. : /bin/python

If something is missing that you think should be present, please skim the output of configure to find the missing component. Details present in config.log. To compile the code run

sudo make

if you get any error middle of the make you have to look at the error and config again removing that package

(I had to remove "cpp" package)

sudo ./configure --without-cpp
 

then run make command again

after making run

make install command

finally run thrift -version

[malintha@localhost thrift-0.9.1]$ thrift -version
Thrift version 0.9.1