install questions

I am fairly new to linux and I am working on installing wine onto
ubunto. I am following the dependencies back and I found I need to
install M4. I ran ./configure, make, and make check with no errors that
I could see, then when I ran make install it came up saying: 

test -z "/usr/local/bin" || /bin/mkdir -p "/usr/local/bin"
  /usr/bin/install -c 'm4' '/usr/local/bin/m4'
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/bin/m4':
Permission denied
make[3]: *** [install-binPROGRAMS] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/justin/Desktop/m4-1.4.12/src'
make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/justin/Desktop/m4-1.4.12/src'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/justin/Desktop/m4-1.4.12'
make: *** [install] Error 2


I am looking for guidance as to what I am missing. Thanks for the help
in advance!

Justin Buell