[ic] Beginner Installation Problem

[Dan Browning]

> Greetings:
> 
> I'm a new user to IC and fairly new to Linux as well. I 
> encountered the 
> following error when attempting to install IC:
> 
> ===========================================================
> Interchange Version 4.7.x Configuration
> 
> Copyright 1996-2001 Red Hat, Inc. <interchange@redhat.com>
> 
> Interchange was originally based on Vend 0.2 and 0.3
> Copyright 1995, 1996 Andrew M. Wilcox <awilcox@maine.com>
> 
> Distributed under the GNU General Public License.
> See the file LICENSE for license information.
> 
> Found Perl 5.6.0 as /usr/bin/perl
> 
> If you get a CPAN error, rerun the configuration and it 
> should go away.
> 
> opendir(./../../..): Permission denied at 
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/FindBin.pm 
> line 143
> Can't write uid file: Permission denied
> make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
> make: *** No rule to make target `test'.  Stop.
> 
> ===========================================================
> 
> Any advice would be appreciated.
> 
> Regards
> 
> George
> 
> PS
> The website is Virtualy Hosted with Shell Access.

Checkout cpan_local_install in your tarball somewhere.  HTH,

Dan Browning
Kavod Technologies