diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b025949..9d19969 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -12,7 +12,13 @@ $ git clone https://github.com/christian-eriksson/blubee.git
 
 ## Build
 
-Run `./build.sh <version>` To build `dist/blubee_<version>_all.deb` and `dist/blubee`.
+To build `dist/blubee_<version>_all.deb` and `dist/blubee`, run:
+
+```
+# ./build.sh <version>
+```
+
+this script would also build a tar ball with a configured version of blubee.
 
 ## Install
 
@@ -26,10 +32,12 @@ You are now ready to run `blubee`.
 
 ### Manual install
 
-On a non Debian system, you can install blubee by copying the content of `dist/blubee/etc` and `dist/blubee/usr/local/bin` to your `/etc` and `/usr/local/bin`. The launcher script in `dist/blubee/usr/local/bin` may be placed in some other directory present in your `$PATH` if you wish.
+On a non Debian system, you can install blubee by building blubee and extract the content of the resulting tar ball, `blubee_<version>_all.tar.gz`, to your `/etc` and `/usr/local/bin`. The launcher script in `dist/blubee/usr/local/bin` may be placed in some other directory present in your `$PATH` if you wish.
 
 During restores blubee will save files that has been changed or will be deleted by the backup. Default folder for this backup copy is `/var/local/blubee/backups`, make sure to create this directory and that the user running blubee has write permissions to this directory.
 
+Also install the dependencies listed below.
+
 #### Dependencies
 
 Blubee uses the following tools. If you don't have them, you'll need to install them.
diff --git a/build.sh b/build.sh
index 835a9e3..56505a2 100755
--- a/build.sh
+++ b/build.sh
@@ -1,9 +1,13 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
+relative_script_dir=${0%/*}
+cd $relative_script_dir
+script_path=$(pwd)
+
 [ -z "$1" ] && echo "provide a version to build" && exit 1
 version="$1"
 
-target_root=dist
+target_root=$script_path/dist
 [ -e $target_root ] && rm -r $target_root
 mkdir $target_root
 
@@ -29,5 +33,11 @@ sed "s/Version: -/Version: $version/" package/control > $distro_dir/control
 
 cp package/conffiles package/postinst package/postrm $distro_dir
 
+chown -R root:root "$bin_dir"
+chown -R root:root "$conf_dir"
+
 dpkg -b $package_root $target_root/blubee_${version}_all.deb
 
+cd $package_root
+tar cvzf $target_root/blubee_${version}_all.tar.gz etc/ usr/
+