Download the latest release from freeradius.org

As of this writing, the latest version is 1.1.7

Verify the integrity of the download by verifying the PGP signature.

Explode the sourcecode tarball with:

tar -xjvf freeradius-1.1.7.tar.bz2

Change to the newly created freeradius-1.1.7 directory

cd freeradius-1.1.7

Create the makefile:

./configure –prefix=/usr –sysconfdir=/etc –mandir=/usr/share/man –infodir=/usr/share/info –localstatedir=/var –htmldir=/var/www/freeradius

Compile and install:

make

make install