This page describes how to compile Oricutron for Ubuntu (instructions correct for Debian unstable)
apt-get install libsdl-dev libgtk-3-dev libgl1-mesa-dev
Make sure you have the GNU C++ compiler support installed (as root):
apt-get install g++
Either download and extract a source package from the download page, or check out the current subversion trunk.
make
Hopefully, an Oricutron executable should come out the other end.