You need too use a older version of thrift. I have 0.6.0. That works for me. Install it in the machine u build it on by hand. The maven dependency may not be available for a older version. Thanks & Regards Rajalakshmi (Raji) Ramesh ------------------------------------------------------- Graduate Student Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA ------------------------------------------------------- On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 8:24 PM, Bharath Ravi wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having some trouble compiling Flume from the github source. > I'm using thrift 0.8.0. Compilation has trouble finding thrift packages. > Errors are of the form: > > "package org.apache.thrift.scheme does not exist" > > How can I point maven to the right thrift libraries/add it as a dependency? > > Thanks a lot, > -- > Bharath Ravi > >