diff --git a/INSTALL.sh b/INSTALL.sh
index 8c318db1337..f5c973b7777 100755
--- a/INSTALL.sh
+++ b/INSTALL.sh
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ build_swi_prolog_from_src() {
     local build_deps="build-essential autoconf git cmake libpython3-dev libgmp-dev libssl-dev unixodbc-dev \
         libreadline-dev zlib1g-dev libarchive-dev libossp-uuid-dev libxext-dev \
         libice-dev libjpeg-dev libxinerama-dev libxft-dev libxpm-dev libxt-dev \
-        pkg-config libdb-dev libpcre3-dev libyaml-dev"
+        pkg-config libdb-dev libpcre3-dev libyaml-dev libedit-dev"
     sudo apt-get install -y $build_deps && {
         echo -e "${GREEN}Build dependencies installed successfully.${NC}"
     } || {
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 53073b04b30..678c98da850 100755
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -124,6 +124,36 @@ The output is saved as an HTML file in the same directory.
 mettalog --test --clean ./tests/baseline-compat
 ```
 
+### Troubleshooting
+
+#### Some prolog commands not found
+
+If already have a recent enough version of SWI-prolog installed, that will be used instead of mettalog installing its own. Some of the packages might not be installed, and mettalog might give an error such as:
+
+```
+ERROR: save_history/0: Unknown procedure el_write_history/2
+```
+
+In that case, you need rebuild your SWI-prolog installation to include the missing packages. The most reliable way to do this is to make sure the following Debian/Ubuntu packages are installed using:
+
+```
+sudo apt install build-essential autoconf git cmake libpython3-dev libgmp-dev libssl-dev unixodbc-dev \
+        libreadline-dev zlib1g-dev libarchive-dev libossp-uuid-dev libxext-dev \
+        libice-dev libjpeg-dev libxinerama-dev libxft-dev libxpm-dev libxt-dev \
+        pkg-config libdb-dev libpcre3-dev libyaml-dev libedit-dev
+```
+
+then rebuild swi-prolog using the instructions from The [SWI-Prolog -- Installation on Linux, *BSD (Unix)](https://www.swi-prolog.org/build/unix.html). The main part of this (assuming that you are in the `swipl` or `swipl-devel` directory) is:
+
+```
+cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=PGO -G Ninja ..
+ninja
+ctest -j $(nproc) --output-on-failure
+ninja install
+
+```
+If you installed swi-prolog as a package from your linux distribition and run into issues, it is likely that you will need to `apt remove` it and then either build SWI-prolog from source or rerun the metta-wam `INSTALL.sh` script.
+
 ## :raised_hands: Acknowledgments
 Thanks to the Hyperon Experimental MeTTa, PySWIP teams, and Flybase for their contributions to this project.