Just to clarify a bit, you spent less the a minute installing scribus. :)
You spent the evening setting up your development environment, which you would also have had to do using another OS (such as Windows), then compiling your application from source code (if that application version was not yet available for that OS).
I should also note here, that if you had read and followed the requirements and instructions on both the scribus web site and or the instructions in the tarball, it would not have taken so much of your time.
For the record, now that you have your dev-environment set up, it will not take so long to compile from source again.
I hope that you understand that this is an explanation, and not meant to be a sarcastic statement. :)
@admin, I suppose that this can be marked as solved.