diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index a7143c6..cc66a97 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 /build/
+/dist/
 *.d
 *.o
 /strfry
diff --git a/pkg/build.pl b/pkg/build.pl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1612795
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/build.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+
+use strict;
+
+use lib 'golpe/';
+use BuildLib;
+
+
+my $version = `git describe --tags 2>/dev/null` || die "couldn't get version";
+
+
+BuildLib::fpm({
+    types => [qw/ deb /],
+    name => 'strfry',
+    version => $version,
+    description => 'strfry',
+    files => {
+        'strfry' => '/usr/local/bin/strfry',
+        'strfry.conf' => '/etc/strfry.conf',
+    },
+    dirs => {
+    },
+    config_files => [
+        '/etc/strfry.conf',
+    ],
+    #postinst => 'pkg/scripts/postinst',
+    # ssl dev pkg so we don't hard-code openssl ABI version (works with multiple)
+    deps => [qw/
+        zlib1g
+        libssl-dev
+        liblmdb0
+        libflatbuffers1
+        libsecp256k1-0
+        libzstd1
+        systemd-coredump
+    /],
+});