diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 2f0deba5c..c425e98b4 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.1.0) # Threads::Threads
 
 project(fastfetch LANGUAGES C)
 
+include(GNUInstallDirs)
+
 OPTION(ENABLE_LIBPCI "Enable libpci" ON)
 OPTION(ENABLE_VULKAN "Enable vulkan" ON)
 OPTION(ENABLE_WAYLAND "Enable wayland-client" ON)
@@ -61,6 +63,8 @@ find_package(Threads REQUIRED)
 
 find_package(PkgConfig REQUIRED)
 
+# Init CMake targets.
+
 add_library(libfastfetch STATIC
     src/util/FFstrbuf.c
     src/util/FFlist.c
@@ -267,6 +271,8 @@ target_link_libraries(flashfetch
     PRIVATE libfastfetch
 )
 
+# Testing.
+
 add_executable(fastfetch-test-performance
     tests/performance.c
 )
@@ -280,3 +286,16 @@ add_executable(fastfetch-test-strbuf
 target_link_libraries(fastfetch-test-strbuf
     PRIVATE libfastfetch
 )
+
+# Installation.
+
+install(TARGETS fastfetch DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_BINDIR})
+
+install(FILES completions/bash
+    DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_DATAROOTDIR}/bash-completion/completions
+    RENAME ${CMAKE_PROJECT_NAME}
+)
+
+install(DIRECTORY presets
+    DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_DATAROOTDIR}/${CMAKE_PROJECT_NAME}
+)
diff --git a/packaging/deb/create-deb-pkg.sh b/packaging/deb/create-deb-pkg.sh
index 8a6121794..1f7eb87c0 100755
--- a/packaging/deb/create-deb-pkg.sh
+++ b/packaging/deb/create-deb-pkg.sh
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ rm -rf ./build ./fastfetch fastfetch.deb
 
 echo "building fastfetch"
 mkdir build
-cd build || exit
-cmake ../../..
-cmake --build . --target fastfetch "-j$(nproc)"
+cd build || exit 1
+cmake ../../.. || exit 1
+cmake --build . --target fastfetch "-j$(nproc)" || exit 1
 
 echo "generating package contents"
 # deb versions must start with a number, hence the 1 added before the rXXX
@@ -16,18 +16,12 @@ version="0:1$(./fastfetch --version | cut -d ' ' -f2)-0"
 echo "Using package version: $version"
 cd ..
 
+cmake --install build --prefix fastfetch/usr || exit 1
 mkdir -p fastfetch/DEBIAN
 sed "s/<VERSION>/$version/g" control-template > fastfetch/DEBIAN/control
 
-mkdir -p fastfetch/usr/bin
-cp build/fastfetch fastfetch/usr/bin/
-mkdir -p fastfetch/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
-cp ../../completions/bash fastfetch/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/fastfetch
-mkdir -p fastfetch/usr/share/fastfetch/
-cp -r ../../presets fastfetch/usr/share/fastfetch/
-
 echo "building package"
-dpkg-deb --build fastfetch
+dpkg-deb --build fastfetch || exit 1
 echo "package built."
 echo "cleaning up"
 rm -rf build fastfetch