I finally got around to attempting a manual install and it worked just fine. Should have started there. It may be a good idea to retest the Debian stretch repository and install guide. Not that it makes much difference but I don't think this is an appropriate call of wget get on any build: wget -qO-...

I followed the instructions for a Debian 32 bit install: https://www.phidgets.com/docs/OS_-_Linux#Debian_install and was able to complete the steps without errors. (once I realized I had to use sudo su -c for each command as there were multiple commands in each step requiring root thus a simple sudo...