How to install from source

Many people don`t know how to install a source package in linux.
It is easy and simple.
Download the source ball , for an example  hp printer driver from

http://sourceforge.net/projects/hplip/files/hplip/3.11.1/

wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/hplip/files/hplip/3.11.1/hplip-3.11.1.tar.gz/download

tar -xzf hplip-3.11.1.tar.gz

go in the driver directory

cd hplip-3.11.1

and run


./configure
make
sudo make install
make clean

and you have your hp linux driver installed from source.
Simple,isn`t it?