to get going, by default do this:

	./configure
	make install

this will install cthumb in /usr/bin and some images in /usr/share/images

a ./configure --prefix=<your dir of choice>

should work to put it in your preferred directory.

you need the following perl packages:

HTML, URI, and they themselves need MIME.

you can just download them from some per CPAN
server, install them wherever you want,
and then set your PERL5LIB variable to point there:

bash$ echo $PERL5LIB
/opt/perl-modules/lib/site_perl
bash$ ls -l /opt/perl-modules/lib/site_perl

total 40
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         4096 Jan  1  1999 HTML
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         4096 Jan  1  1999 MIME
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         4096 Jan  1  1999 URI
-r--r--r--   1 root     root        22684 Nov 19  1998 URI.pm
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root         4096 Jan  1  1999 i386-linux
bash$ 

in have included and also posted a copy of these files in

	http://puchol.com/cpg/software/cthumb/

for your download and install pleasure. i like to
install these modules in /opt/perl-modules, thus
i se my PERL5LIB to

	/opt/perl-modules/lib/site_perl

the file included is called perl-modules.tgz
(and happens to quadruple the size of the source tarball!)