Error installing histoCAT on Linux from debian installer

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Hello, we are trying to install histoCAT for some of our scientists on a Linux VM running Ubuntu. When I try to launch the install file, I receive the following error message:

./histoCAT_1.75_Debian.install
Failed to download the MCR Installer from http://www.mathworks.com/pi_install_agent_pi_R2014b_glnxa64Error : Unsupported protocol
Could not source the install agent
Installation failed.

Is this trying to pull the matlab runtime installer using FTP? If not, how is it trying to pull the installer? I also tried manually installing the matlab 2014b runtime, and added the necessary components to environment variables, but histoCAT did not seem to recognize these and is still trying to pull the MCR installer as above.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!