I had some difficulty along the way, and I have some fixes for those of you who are having trouble converting. I found that Mephisto is actually very friendly to the ./script/console hacker. Also, though it took a while to actually get a response, I ended up getting direct help from technoweenie in #mephisto@irc.freenode.net, which [...]

I was missing readline. The sadness. Thanks to these guys, i fixed it. Here’s how to do it on FC5: sudo yum install ncurses-devel readline-devel cd ruby-1.8.4/ext/readline ruby extconf.rb make sudo make install