roblem installing MIDISH on Ubuntu

Hi! Should I be able to run MIDISH on Ubuntu 9.04? It shows up in 
Synaptic Package Manager, and seems to install, but RMIDISH only 
gives me "no such proc" errors for any command I issue.  
Attempting to install the package manually as per the 
installation instructions fails at CONFIGURE with the cT install 
without readline lib.  Readline seems to be installed, but 
doesn't have the files requested by the Configure script.  I'm 
fairly new to Linux, so could easily be missing something.  Any 
help would be appreciated.  Thank you.

Kevin