I wish this was available as a flatpak. There are just toooo many dependencies that need to be custom install to install Sonic Pi. Packaging it for distro will be a nightmare.
Flatpak to the rescue.
Flatpak to the rescue.
It actually is available as a Flatpak, and it wasn't until these two things converged that I stopped having to put effort into getting it to work under Linux. (This is actually another reason it took me so long to pick this back up.)