How to install libevents on Linux

Dowload the library

  
wget https://github.com/libevent/libevent/releases/download/release-2.1.8-stable/libevent-2.1.8-stable.tar.gz
tar xzf libevent-2.1.8-stable.tar.gz
cd libevent-2.1.8-stable
./configure --prefix=/opt/libevent # Change path as required
make
make install