diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index 814145d..065ef1c 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 require "rake/clean"
-CLEAN.include("gem")
-CLOBBER.include("target", "avvoenv.1")
+CLEAN.include("gem", "avvoenv")
+CLOBBER.include("target", "avvoenv.1", "avvoenv-mac.zip", "avvoenv-linux.tar.gz")
 
 task default: [:"build:default", :man]
 namespace :build do
@@ -9,6 +9,17 @@ namespace :build do
 end
 task man: "avvoenv.1"
 
+# assumes you're building on a mac
+task release: [:"build:default", :"build:linux", :man] do |t|
+  `mkdir -p avvoenv`
+  `cp target/release/avvoenv avvoenv`
+  `cp avvoenv.1 avvoenv`
+  `cp install.sh avvoenv`
+  `zip -r avvoenv-mac.zip avvoenv`
+  `cp target/x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/release/avvoenv avvoenv`
+  `tar -czf avvoenv-linux.tar.gz avvoenv`
+end
+
 task install: [:"build:default", :man] do |t|
   prefix = ENV["PREFIX"] || "."
   `mkdir -p #{prefix}/bin`
diff --git a/install.sh b/install.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..eafc6ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/install.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+PREFIX=${@:-/usr/local}
+DIR=$(cd $(dirname $0) && pwd)
+
+mkdir -p "$PREFIX/bin"
+cp "$DIR/avvoenv" "$PREFIX/bin"
+
+mkdir -p "$PREFIX/share/man/man1"
+cp "$DIR/avvoenv.1" "$PREFIX/share/man/man1"
+
+if [ command -v mandb >/dev/null 2>&1 ]; then
+  mandb
+fi