Software installation in Linux

Unlike windows operating system linux software installation is different since in windows we can install file formats ".exe", ".msc" ".msi". Now coming to linux softwares are provided in different formats such as source code of the softwares are available freely in Internet. the source code can be either in c, perl, java etc..
1.Installing C source files

     //Every software package u downloaded consists install file first read it and try to install.

#./configure
#make
#make install //as a root user

2.If u have an Internet connection follow the simple commands

FOR DEBIAN LINUX
          
                #apt-get install <software_name>
//must be a root user
FOR RED-HAT LINUX

                #yum install <software_name>
//must be a root user