TrueCrypt and Ubuntu 9

Today I installed True Crypt on an Ubuntu box. Tried apt-cache to search truecrypt without success. Cause I'm a damn good rftm'er I continued using google. Every page suggested to compile the sources. Not that I'm afraid of compiling source code but hey that's Ubuntu not Gentoo. So I stopped doing the rtfm stuff and had a look at the homepage of True Crypt. Downloaded a tar archive, extracted it and run the extracted executable. A few seconds later I got True Crypt running on the box. Why are all the linux guys always trying to compile things...