Compilation and Installation
From OpenSSLWiki
Get source code
http://www.openssl.org/source/
Compilation
once you untarred source ( or got it from a source control ) best is to look at README provided in it.
cat README
where you will understand that you have to read another file INSTALL :
cat INSTALL
Quick
./config make make test make install
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