Generally, look at the readme and install files in the directory, which will tell you how to install the software

Now I know that there may be two situations:

1. When there is no configure in the directory, but there is configure.am or configure.in, you need to use Autoconf command to generate configure. The code is as follows:

$CD (software name) – (version number)
$Autoconf

2. This software or library is not installed in the following way

$CD (software name) – (version number)
$./configure
$make
$sudomakeinstall

You need to carefully read the relevant files under the folder, readme, and so on, according to the way written inside to install