After more searching the answer was found here: http://www.scala-sbt.org/0.13/docs/Installing-sbt-on-Linux.html
echo "deb https://dl.bintray.com/sbt/debian /" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sbt.list
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv 642AC823
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sbt
This one does work
sbt
Getting org.scala-sbt sbt 0.13.9 ...
And then.. be patient ..