diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ac3e94b..4c9aa89 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ CMakeFiles/
 Makefile
 cmake_install.cmake
 build
+package-debian/out
+
+#IDE
+.idea/
+*.iml
 
 # Executables
 mcmap
diff --git a/package-debian/Makefile b/package-debian/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..32350ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package-debian/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+COMMIT_SHA_SHORT ?= $(shell git rev-parse --short=12 HEAD)
+PWD_DIR:= ${CURDIR}
+SHELL := /bin/bash
+
+default: help;
+
+# ======================================================================================
+build-builder-debian: ## build the builder image that contains the source code
+	@docker build -f build-debian.dockerfile -t mcmap-builder-debian:latest ./..
+
+build-debian: build-builder-debian ## build for linux using docker
+	@mkdir -p out
+	@docker run -it --rm -v ${PWD_DIR}/out:/out mcmap-builder-debian:latest /bin/bash -c "mkdir -p /mcmap/build && \
+		cd /mcmap/build && \
+		cmake .. && \
+		make -j mcmap mcmap-gui && \
+		cp /mcmap/build/bin/* /out"
+
+package-debian: build-debian ## package the just compiled binary
+	@docker run -it --rm -v ${PWD_DIR}/out:/out mcmap-builder-debian:latest /bin/bash -c "cd /out && \
+		nfpm pkg -f /mcmap/package-debian/nfpm.yaml -p deb"
+
+
+help: ## Show this help
+	@grep -E '^[a-zA-Z_-]+:.*?## .*$$' $(MAKEFILE_LIST)  | awk 'BEGIN {FS = ":.*?## "}; {printf "\033[36m- %-20s\033[0m %s\n", $$1, $$2}'
diff --git a/package-debian/build-debian.dockerfile b/package-debian/build-debian.dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5d0262b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package-debian/build-debian.dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+FROM ubuntu:22.10
+
+ARG DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+ENV TZ=Etc/PDT 
+RUN apt-get update &&  apt-get install -y \
+    git make g++ libpng-dev cmake libspdlog-dev qttools5-dev
+
+# install nfpm
+RUN echo 'deb [trusted=yes] https://repo.goreleaser.com/apt/ /' | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/goreleaser.list && \
+   apt-get update && apt-get install -y nfpm
+
+COPY . /mcmap
diff --git a/package-debian/nfpm.yaml b/package-debian/nfpm.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bd3be56
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package-debian/nfpm.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+# mcmap packaging config
+# expects to be run from the `bin` directory
+
+name: "mcmap"
+arch: "amd64"
+platform: "linux"
+version: "3.0.2"
+section: "default"
+priority: "extra"
+description: |
+  Mcmap is a tool allowing you to create isometric renders of your Minecraft save file.
+maintainer: "Andres Bott <contact@andresbott.com>"
+homepage: "https://github.com/spoutn1k/mcmap"
+license: "GPL-3.0 license"
+contents:
+- src: ./mcmap # this path is mounted into the container
+  dst: /usr/local/bin/mcmap
+  file_info:
+    mode: 0755
+    owner: root
+    group: root
+- src: ./mcmap-gui
+  dst: /usr/local/bin/mcmap-gui
+  file_info:
+    mode: 0755
+    owner: root
+    group: root
+overrides:
+  deb:
+    depends:
+      - libpng16-16
+      - libgomp1
+      - qtbase5-dev