I did an install of this packge today and compiled the source. Here are the steps I took.
ASUS EeePC - 1 gig mem, 4 gig solid state drive
clean install ubuntu 11 server
/usr/src/wget
http://www.scriptbasic.org/download/SB_2.1_RC1_Linux.tar.gz/usr/scr sudo tar -xvf SB_2.1_RC1_Linux.tar.gz
/usr/scr/scriptbasic/sudo perl convert.pl
/usr/scr/scriptbasic/sudo ./setup
/usr/scr/scriptbasic/sudo ./setup --install
/usr/scr/scriptbasic/sudo ./install.sh
scriba (the command line scriba help displayed)