diff --git a/tooling/package/build-deb.sh b/tooling/package/build-deb.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+# Oak Video Editor - Non-Linear Video Editor
+# Copyright (C) 2026 Oak Team
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+# Build the .deb by hand: stage the release binaries + resources, compute
+# the FULL runtime dependency set with dpkg-shlibdeps (Debian-family names
+# of the build distro), and pack with dpkg-deb. Run from the repo root
+# after `cargo build --release`. Usage: tooling/package/build-deb.sh <version>
+set -euo pipefail
+
+VERSION="${1:?usage: build-deb.sh <version>}"
+STAGING=target/pkg/deb
+rm -rf "$STAGING"
+mkdir -p "$STAGING/usr/bin" "$STAGING/usr/share/applications" \
+	"$STAGING/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps" "$STAGING/usr/share/oak/i18n" \
+	"$STAGING/DEBIAN"
+
+install -m755 target/release/oak-editor target/release/oak-cli target/release/oak-worker \
+	"$STAGING/usr/bin/"
+install -m644 packaging/oak.desktop "$STAGING/usr/share/applications/oak.desktop"
+install -m644 icons/icon.png "$STAGING/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/oak.png"
+install -m644 assets/i18n/*.yaml "$STAGING/usr/share/oak/i18n/"
+
+# The full shlib dependency set (FFmpeg/OCIO are statically linked, so
+# only base-OS packages appear).
+DEPS=$(for bin in "$STAGING"/usr/bin/*; do dpkg-shlibdeps -O "$bin"; done \
+	| sed 's/^shlibs:Depends=//' | tr ',' '\n' | sed 's/^ //;s/ $//' | sort -u \
+	| paste -sd', ' -)
+echo "declared deps: $DEPS"
+
+cat > "$STAGING/DEBIAN/control" <<EOF
+Package: oak-editor
+Version: $VERSION
+Section: video
+Priority: optional
+Architecture: $(dpkg --print-architecture)
+Maintainer: Oak Team
+Depends: $DEPS
+Description: Oak Video Editor — a free, open-source non-linear video editor
+ Oak is a non-linear video editor written in Rust (OpenFX plug-in host,
+ proxy editing, multicam, hardware decoding).
+EOF
+
+dpkg-deb --root-owner-group --build "$STAGING" "target/release/oak-editor_${VERSION}_amd64.deb"
+echo "built target/release/oak-editor_${VERSION}_amd64.deb"
diff --git a/tooling/package/build-pkg.sh b/tooling/package/build-pkg.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..7f59f5dd9
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+++ b/tooling/package/build-pkg.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Oak Video Editor - Non-Linear Video Editor
+# Copyright (C) 2026 Oak Team
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+# Build the Arch package: substitute the version into the PKGBUILD and
+# run makepkg (as a non-root user — makepkg refuses root, and CI
+# containers are root). Run from the repo root after
+# `cargo build --release`. Usage: tooling/package/build-pkg.sh <version>
+set -euo pipefail
+
+VERSION="${1:?usage: build-pkg.sh <version>}"
+WORK=target/pkg/arch
+rm -rf "$WORK"
+mkdir -p "$WORK"
+sed "s/@VERSION@/$VERSION/" tooling/package/PKGBUILD > "$WORK/PKGBUILD"
+
+if [ "$(id -u)" = "0" ]; then
+	useradd -m builder 2>/dev/null || true
+	chown -R builder:builder "$WORK" target/release
+	su builder -c "cd '$PWD/$WORK' && OAK_BIN='$PWD/target/release' OAK_ROOT='$PWD' makepkg -f --nodeps"
+else
+	(cd "$WORK" && OAK_BIN="$PWD/target/release" OAK_ROOT="$PWD" makepkg -f --nodeps)
+fi
+
+find "$WORK" -name '*.pkg.tar.zst' -exec mv {} target/release/ \;
+ls target/release/*.pkg.tar.zst
diff --git a/tooling/package/build-rpm.sh b/tooling/package/build-rpm.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..217d007ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tooling/package/build-rpm.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Oak Video Editor - Non-Linear Video Editor
+# Copyright (C) 2026 Oak Team
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+# Build the .rpm: stage into a buildroot and let rpmbuild's automatic
+# dependency discovery (find-requires) compute the Requires from the
+# binaries' NEEDED entries. Run from the repo root after
+# `cargo build --release`. Usage: tooling/package/build-rpm.sh <version>
+set -euo pipefail
+
+VERSION="${1:?usage: build-rpm.sh <version>}"
+TOP=$(pwd)/target/pkg/rpm
+rm -rf "$TOP"
+mkdir -p "$TOP"/{BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,BUILDROOT}
+
+ROOT="$TOP/BUILDROOT/oak-editor-$VERSION-1.x86_64"
+mkdir -p "$ROOT/usr/bin" "$ROOT/usr/share/applications" \
+	"$ROOT/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps" "$ROOT/usr/share/oak/i18n"
+install -m755 target/release/oak-editor target/release/oak-cli target/release/oak-worker \
+	"$ROOT/usr/bin/"
+install -m644 packaging/oak.desktop "$ROOT/usr/share/applications/oak.desktop"
+install -m644 icons/icon.png "$ROOT/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/oak.png"
+install -m644 assets/i18n/*.yaml "$ROOT/usr/share/oak/i18n/"
+
+rpmbuild -bb \
+	--define "_topdir $TOP" \
+	--define "_version $VERSION" \
+	--define "buildroot $ROOT" \
+	--define "_binary_payload w6.zstdio" \
+	tooling/package/oak.spec
+
+find "$TOP/RPMS" -name '*.rpm' -exec mv {} target/release/ \;
+ls target/release/*.rpm