This happens for Scite 1.62 at least. It is very easy to find. Simply open Scite, go to Help->About Scite, and it crashes on you. Running Scite from the terminal, it gives this debugging information: Gdk-ERROR **: unknown font type. aborting... Aborted
happens here too. but it was fix on newer versions. you should unmask the package and use those.
Please try >= 1.70 - it works for me ok.