Easier to just install the interpreter using any package manager, open up the docs, and start writing useful scripts. All of the batteries included in the standard library go a long way towards helping with that as well.

I remember fighting with Guile a bit to achieve the same goal, although I don't remember the details at this point, and my experience might be outdated now. I do remember that some things which are included in Gauche (e.g. JSON) are 3rd-party libraries in Guile. Also I don't understand why some of their libraries are called "ice9". What's with the Cat's Cradle reference? Is it a pun? It it someone's username? Is it a "contrib" library of some kind that was absorbed into the standard library? Why didn't the name get changed?