If Docker is installed on your system, you can use it to easily checkout and build HTCondor from source. Assuming you have sudo access to docker, simply 1: mkdir some_directory 1: cd some_directory 1: Copy the attached text into a file named "Dockerfile" in this directory. 1: sudo docker build . This may take some time, but will create a docker container with checkout-out and built sources. You can use the docker commit command to turn the container back into an image.