Not sure that sequencing simulator written in 2007 is the best choice here.

I suggest you try ART as there are compiled binaries available. There are simulators for several sequencing technologies. A brief summary of commands to generate Illumina-like reads:

 1) single-end read simulation
        art_illumina -ss HS25 -sam -i reference.fa -l 150 -f 10 -o single_dat

 2) paired-end read simulation
       art_illumina -ss HS25 -sam -i reference.fa -p -l 150 -f 20 -m 200 -s 10 -o paired_dat

 3) mate-pair read simulation
       art_illumina -ss HS10 -sam -i reference.fa -mp -l 100 -f 20 -m 2500 -s 50 -o matepair_dat

 4) amplicon sequencing simulation with 5' end single-end reads
        art_illumina -ss GA2 -amp -sam -na -i amp_reference.fa -l 50 -f 10 -o amplicon_5end_dat

 5) amplicon sequencing simulation with paired-end reads
       art_illumina -ss GA2 -amp -p -sam -na -i amp_reference.fa -l 50 -f 10 -o amplicon_pair_dat

 6) amplicon sequencing simulation with matepair reads
       art_illumina -ss MSv1 -amp -mp -sam -na -i amp_reference.fa -l 150 -f 10 -o amplicon_mate_dat

 7) generate an extra SAM file with zero-sequencing errors for a paired-end read simulation
       art_illumina -ss HSXn -ef -i reference.fa -p -l 150 -f 20 -m 200 -s 10 -o paired_twosam_dat

 8) reduce the substitution error rate to one 10th of the default profile
       art_illumina -i reference.fa -qs 10 -qs2 10 -l 50 -f 10 -p -m 500 -s 10 -sam -o reduce_error

 9) turn off the masking of genomic regions with unknown nucleotides 'N'
       art_illumina -ss HS20 -nf 0  -sam -i reference.fa -p -l 100 -f 20 -m 200 -s 10 -o paired_nomask

 10) masking genomic regions with >=5 'N's within the read length 50
       art_illumina -ss HSXt -nf 5 -sam -i reference.fa -p -l 150 -f 20 -m 200 -s 10 -o paired_maskN5

sudo apt install maq, but I agree that using a newer software will be wiser.