diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d2a2da19d..9eaede018 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -5,3 +5,5 @@
 cscope.*
 tags
 fastfetch.kdev4
+**/*.deb
+packaging/deb/fastfetch
diff --git a/packaging/deb/control-template b/packaging/deb/control-template
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c0a92a103
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packaging/deb/control-template
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+Package: fastfetch
+Version: <VERSION>
+Section: utils
+Priority: extra
+Architecture: amd64
+Maintainer: peter@bohner.me
+Homepage: https://github.com/LinusDierheimer/fastfetch
+Installed-Size: 410K
+Description: A fast alternative to neofetch
+ fastfetch is a neofetch-like tool for fetching system information and
+ displaying them in a pretty way. It is written in c to achieve much better
+ performance, in return only Linux and Android are supported. It also uses
+ mechanisms like multithreading and caching to finish as fast as possible.
diff --git a/packaging/deb/create-deb-pkg.sh b/packaging/deb/create-deb-pkg.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..8a6121794
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packaging/deb/create-deb-pkg.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+cd "$(dirname "$0")" || exit
+echo "cleanup"
+rm -rf ./build ./fastfetch fastfetch.deb
+
+echo "building fastfetch"
+mkdir build
+cd build || exit
+cmake ../../..
+cmake --build . --target fastfetch "-j$(nproc)"
+
+echo "generating package contents"
+# deb versions must start with a number, hence the 1 added before the rXXX
+version="0:1$(./fastfetch --version | cut -d ' ' -f2)-0"
+echo "Using package version: $version"
+cd ..
+
+mkdir -p fastfetch/DEBIAN
+sed "s/<VERSION>/$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
+echo "package built."
+echo "cleaning up"
+rm -rf build fastfetch