You will need the following packages to run Mesos.

$ sudo apt-get install python2.7-dev g++ libcppunit-dev libunwind7-dev git libcurl4-nss-dev

You need to have Java installed, or the JAVA_HOME environment variable pointing to a Java installation.

You can download the Mesos distribution from here. After that untar the downloaded file

$ tar xvf mesos-0.13.0.tar.gz

Building and Installing

$ cd mesos-0.13.0
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ sudo  ../configure --prefix=/home/user/mesos
$ sudo make
$ sudo make check
$ sudo make install

You can pass the –prefix option while configuring to tell where to install. For example