Download the archive gcompris-X.X.tar.gz then:
  tar -xvf gcompris-X.X.tar.gz
  cd gcompris-X.X
  sh configure
  Analyse, the errors, install the missing dependancies. Often you will have to install the -devel packages on your distribution. On Ubuntu or Debian, you can get all the build dependancies with the command ’apt-get build-dep gcompris’.

Then run:
  make
  make install