installation script fails and breaks Linux Mint Debian edition 6 (amd64)

[ClaudiBunsen]

following instructions on [https://www.zerotier.com/download/](the dowwnload page)

and either executing

curl -s https://install.zerotier.com | sudo bash

or

curl -s 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/main/doc/contact%40zerotier.com.gpg' | gpg --import && \ if z=$(curl -s 'https://install.zerotier.com/' | gpg); then echo "$z" | sudo bash; fi

ends up breaking the system with.

E: Malformed entry 1 in list file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/zerotier.list (URI parse)
E: The list of sources could not be read.
E: Malformed entry 1 in list file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/zerotier.list (URI parse)
E: The list of sources could not be read.

*** Package installation failed! Unfortunately there may not be a package
*** for your architecture or distribution. For the source go to:
*** https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne

my current workaround to fix this, has been to manually disable the ZT repo, from the script, followed by manually adding

deb http://download.zerotier.com/debian/bookworm bookworm main
as its repo

manually adding the gpg key, from the install script, as well as attempt to followthe following steps.