Any particular version of linux? I just tried to install on centos 7 with a package manager and discovered that I received kicad 4.0, which doesn’t have a scripting console…
I also tried a nightly build following: KiCad 5 and nightly builds for Fedora Linux – maybe fedora is different enough from centos that this won’t work…I don’t really know what I’m doing.
dnf copr enable aimylios/kicad-nightly
gave me
Error: This repository does not have any builds yet so you cannot enable it now.