diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index da02b6d..cbd2122 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 __pycache__
 packaging-scripts
-PKGBUILD
 *.pkg.tar.xz
 *.pkg.tar.xz.sig
diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5888682
--- /dev/null
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+# Maintainer: Eric Torres <erictorres4@protonmail.com>
+pkgname=packaging-scripts
+pkgver=1.0.2
+pkgrel=1
+pkgdesc="A set of helper scripts for handling Arch Linux packages"
+arch=('any')
+license=('GPL3')
+groups=('pacman-helpers')
+depends=('pacman' 'python')
+makedepends=('git' 'python-setuptools')
+optdepends=('fzf: for the fqo script'
+            'mlocate: for the fqo script')
+source=("git+file:///home/etorres/Projects/packaging-scripts")
+sha256sums=('SKIP')
+sha512sums=('SKIP')
+
+build() {
+    cd "$srcdir/$pkgname"
+    python setup.py build
+}
+
+package() {
+    cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}"
+
+    python setup.py install --root="$pkgdir/" --optimize=1 --skip-build
+
+    # install README
+    install -Dm644 README.rst "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}/README.rst"
+
+    # install zsh completions
+    install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/share/zsh/site-functions"
+    for completion in packaging_scripts/zsh-completions/*; do
+        install -m644 "${completion}"\
+            "${pkgdir}/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/${completion##*/*}"
+    done
+}