John Burt: ... > Is there another way that > you know of to install guile 1.8? ...
git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/guile.git cd guile git co release_1-8-8 ./autogen.sh ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/guile_1.8.8 make make install where the last step (make install) possible has to be done by root. You might prefer some other location than /usr/local/guile.... Regards, /Karl Hammar