I like to be able to build Debian packages from source. Unfortunately, the released TrueCrypt sources don't contain the Debian/Ubuntu packaging used to build their .deb files. As a result, I've created my own Debian packaging, available here.

As the TrueCrypt license seems to have issues that stop TrueCrypt being included in most distributions, the downloadable files only include the 'debian' folder. You'll still need to download the TrueCrypt sources from here. Advantages over the upstream packaging include an init script to kill TrueCrypt device mappings on shutdown and the generation of a reasonably well formatted man page from the output of 'truecrypt --help'.