diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 9fae551..bc7d16a 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+.PHONY: cargo-ui
+
+all:
+	wit mirrors
+
+cargo-ui:
+	cd cargo-ui && make
+	make all
+
 help:
 	@echo
 	@echo "# this are just simple shortcuts to package up files on a system once you have it compiled and installed"
diff --git a/cargo-ui/Makefile b/cargo-ui/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8ef043c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cargo-ui/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+.PHONY: control
+
+# ~/tmp/cargo/example/cargo-ui/cargo-ui
+
+VERSION=20220510.1
+BASENAME=cargo-ui
+
+all: clean extract DEBIAN build
+
+help:
+	@echo
+	@echo "make all     # to attempt to download, extract and build the .deb package using dpkg"
+	@echo
+
+source:
+	git clone https://github.com/slint-ui/cargo-ui.git
+
+clean:
+	rm -rf ../files
+	rm -f ../*.deb
+	rm -f ../*.tar.xz data.tar.xz
+	rm -rf DEBIAN
+
+extract:
+	mkdir -p ../files/usr/bin
+	cp ~/tmp/cargo/example/cargo-ui/cargo-ui ../files/usr/bin
+
+# makes the DEBIAN/ directory
+DEBIAN:
+	mkdir -p DEBIAN
+
+	# make the md5sum file
+	cd ../files/ && find -type f -exec md5sum '{}' \; |sort -k2 >../md5sums
+	mv ../md5sums DEBIAN/
+
+	# make the control there
+	mkdir -p DEBIAN
+	cp control DEBIAN/
+	echo Version: ${VERSION} >>DEBIAN/control
+
+	cp postinst DEBIAN
+
+build:
+	mv DEBIAN ../files/
+	cd .. && dpkg-deb --build files ${BASENAME}_${VERSION}_amd64.deb
+	cd .. && dpkg-deb --info ${BASENAME}_${VERSION}_amd64.deb
diff --git a/cargo-ui/compat b/cargo-ui/compat
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f599e28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cargo-ui/compat
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+10
diff --git a/cargo-ui/control b/cargo-ui/control
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..72e65af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cargo-ui/control
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+Source: cargo-ui
+Build-Depends: rust
+Package: cargo-ui
+Maintainer: Jeff Carr <jcarr@wit.com>
+Architecture: amd64
+Depends:
+Description: a rust project to make a GUI for cargo, built using Slint:
diff --git a/cargo-ui/postinst b/cargo-ui/postinst
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..d417af6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cargo-ui/postinst
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#!/bin/sh -x
+
+systemctl daemon-reload
+useradd -mrU -s /sbin/nologin -d /var/lib/maddy -c "maddy mail server" maddy