Most of the time you can just download a release and place the binary in path (or a symlink).

Compiling it yourself should not ‘messing up’ anything, it should build locally:

./configure
make -j$(nproc)

Now it’s just built, nothing on your system has changed. make install will place requisite files where they need to go, but this generally configurable via prefix or equivalent. You may need to install dependencies, but that’s usually a simple exercise in reading the output from the configuration step.

Compiling software is easy as fuck and is incredibly flexible.