I have no idea what linux distribution "ubuntu centOS" is. Ubuntu and CentOS are two different distributions.

To answer the question in the header: To install make in ubuntu you have to install build-essentials

sudo apt-get install build-essential

yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

or

yum install gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel

To build GNU packages from source the dance is:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local  # Or your preferred place
make
make install

The configure script queries your environment for all sorts of relevant details (compiler version, usability of various language characteristics, various libraries, functions that might carry different names, ...) and creates some header files from the result reflecting the required configuration. It also builds the Makefile. Running make by itself will fail, until you run configure there is no Makefile, and so no install target.

Why do you want that specific version of make? That one is a quite stable package, the announcement doesn't show any revolutionary changes.

Run the command:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

Chances are you will need things like gcc to actually do the building so you might as well install those as well. The build-essential package will install other tools used along with make.

Well, exactly what it says: there is no file named configure. Are you in the right directory? Did you read the README or INSTALL file that comes with the package?

I wonder if this is what you want though. No offense, but if you can't understand the error message, compiling a videodriver might not be the right approach. What is it what you want to accomplish? Intel drivers are builtin, so you should have a good reason for this.

./configure is a program that looks at your system configuration and builds some of the system dependencies for your program. make is a program that looks at your Makefile (which was probably built by configure) and uses the rules in there to build your program. The Makefile can have multiple "targets" which are rule sets to do different things - the default is usually just to compile and link your program. When you say make with no arguments, it runs the default target. When you say make install you're running the install target, which usually installs the binaries or libraries built by the default target in their final locations. clean is another common Makefile target that deletes all the generated files like intermediate object files.