The installer runs on wine so it might not work on every distro. It installs and updates the client which does not require wine to run. If you have issues with the installer you can download the client directly but you will not automatically get updates. If anyone wishes to offer support getting this set up as a maintained package on debian/ubuntu please reach out by email at support @ this domain. I will get to this eventually but I don't know the first thing about it so it might take time.