Since many of you still run into issues building Telephant on Ubuntu/Debian, I've decided to build a (mostly) static executable you should be able to run on a bunch of recent Linux distros.
Tested on Arch & Ubuntu 19.04.
Find it here:
https://github.com/muesli/telephant/releases/download/v0.1/telephant_0.1pre_Linux_64bit
Trying to create proper packages for a few distros next.