So Ubuntu version 18.04.3 will install libtas, however version 16.04.6 has issues. Version 16 of Ubuntu actually properly plays the game while 18 does not. I have not tried v19 Ubuntu but if 18 fails to play the game and yet v16 does work, v19 seems unlikely to work.
In v16 if you attempt to use the normal Software Installer it will spin but then not give any feedback and not install. Not really familiar with terminal but I tried 2 ways that both error. If i am missing something tell me.
1) local path
~/Documents$ sudo apt install libtas_1.3.5_amd64.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libtas_1.3.5_amd64.deb
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'libtas_1.3.5_amd64.deb'
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libtas_1.3.5_amd64.deb'
2) specific path
mz@mz-VirtualBox:~/Documents$ sudo apt install ~/Documents/libtas_1.3.5_amd64.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'libtas' instead of '/home/mz/Documents/libtas_1.3.5_amd64.deb'
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libtas : Depends: libavutil55 (>= 7:3.2.0) but it is not installable or
libavutil56 but it is not installable
Depends: libqt5core5a (>= 5.7.0) but 5.5.1+dfsg-16ubuntu7.5 is to be installed
Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.6.0) but 5.5.1+dfsg-16ubuntu7.5 is to be installed
Depends: libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.6.0) but 5.5.1+dfsg-16ubuntu7.5 is to be installed
Depends: libstdc++6 (>= 6) but 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.12 is to be installed
Depends: libswresample2 (>= 7:3.2.0) but it is not installable or
libswresample3 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
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