Galera, consegui instalar o SPED, para isso utilizei a versão 5.0 do Debian, o Lenny.

E baixei o arquivo sped-install.tar.gz  de 55 mb, e rodou tranquilo o instalador.

so tive que alterar a sources.list em /ets/apt

para estes repositorios.

# Repositorio principal
deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib
deb-src http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib

# Atualizacoes de seguranca
deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian-security/ stable/updates main contrib
deb-src http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian-security/ stable/updates main contrib

# Atualizacoes recomendadas
deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ lenny-proposed-updates main contrib
deb-src http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ lenny-proposed-updates main contrib

# Atualizacoes para pacotes que mudam com frequencia
deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian-volatile/ lenny/volatile main contrib
deb-src http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian-volatile/ lenny/volatile main contrib

deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian-multimedia/ stable main
deb-src http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian-multimedia/ stable main

deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free

deb http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian-backports/ lenny-backports main contrib
deb-src http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian-backports/ lenny-backports main contrib

Autor: Marcio Ricardo Melo