Anyone else having trouble setting up the new wallets on linux?

My wallet won't download the blockchain, and bootstrapping it doesn't seem to work either. Weird as I have got an older version working. When downloaded the deb file just won't run and cloning the git just results in a wallet that doesn't work.

Also why does the walkthrough redirect the config file to be within the phantomx downloaded folder rather than home/.phantomx? Seems this causes problems on my machine