Tips and tricks seems to be broken so I will put this here.
Maybe someone will find this useful.
I down loaded the amd64 iso images for Debian 8 from here.
www.debian.org/releases/jessie/debian-installer/
I updated /etc/apt/sources.list to include the following
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.11.0 _Jessie_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 20180623-13:07]/ jessie contrib main
deb
security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib
deb-src
security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib
deb
httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie main contrib
deb-src
httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie main contrib
deb
httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie-updates main contrib
deb-src
httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie-updates main contrib
I only used the install DVD #1 for sources.list, the other 2 iso DVD's seem to break the install for some reason.
Then su root
# apt-get update
# apt-get install sudo
# apt-get install build-essential
# apt-get install mysql-server
sudo is needed due to the project deb package installation script
dpkg -i pwr55_5.5.0-1_amd64.deb
dpkg -i pwrrt_5.5.0-1_amd64.deb
dpkg -i --force-overwrite pwrsev_5.5.0-1_amd64.deb
--force-overwrite is needed due to a needed existing file overwrite.
everything seems to work
thanks Proview