I ran into some trouble on Ubuntu 18.04 / AMD64, but it's fixable. I never saw the error you saw, but perhaps this will still be helpful. I used the release fr

I ran into some trouble on Ubuntu 18.04 / AMD64, but it's fixable. I never saw the error you saw, but perhaps this will still be helpful. I used the release from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-3.0.0.tar.gz https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-3.0.0.tar.gz (linked from https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/download/ https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/download/ ) It's a release file so it includes the configure script out of the box. To install the build dependencies: sudo apt-get install libtool libgmp-dev libiconv-dev libltdl-dev libgc-dev libffi libffi-dev libunistring-dev pkg-config After running sudo make install I tried to run guile, but it complained about not finding a .so file. A symlink fixed it: sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/libguile-3.0.so.1 /usr/lib/ After this, it worked. Perhaps fire up a fresh Bash for good measure. Unrelated: I can't use the history in the Guile REPL though - if I press the up key, I get garbage rather than my previous line.