diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+# Leiningen packaging for sdkman.io
+
+## Prerequisites
+
+  * A Leiningen release (online)
+  * wget
+  * zip
+  * sdkman credentials
+
+## Packaging
+
+```
+./package.sh VERSION BUILD_DIR
+```
+
+  * `BUILD_DIR needs to be empty`
+  * this yields a `zip` file in `BUILD_DIR/out/`
+
+## Uploading
+
+  * Release this zip file in the `leiningen/leiningen-sdkman` repo and jot down the URL
+
+## Releasing
+
+```
+export CONSUMER_KEY=x
+export CONSUMER_TOKEN=y
+
+./release.sh VERSION
+```
diff --git a/package.sh b/package.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+if [ "$1" = "" -o "$2" = "" ]; then
+  echo "Usage: $0 VERSION BUILD_DIR"
+  exit
+fi
+
+VERSION="$1"
+BUILD_DIR="$2"
+SUB_DIR="leiningen-${VERSION}"
+OUT_DIR="out"
+
+test -d "$BUILD_DIR" && {
+  echo "The build dir ${BUILD_DIR} exists, choose a different dir."
+  exit 1
+}
+
+echo "Packaging Leiningen ${VERSION} for SDKMAN in ${BUILD_DIR} ..."
+
+mkdir -p "$BUILD_DIR"
+cd "$BUILD_DIR"
+
+test -d "$SUB_DIR" || mkdir -p "$SUB_DIR"
+cd "$SUB_DIR"
+
+mkdir bin
+cd bin
+
+wget "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/technomancy/leiningen/${VERSION}/bin/lein-sdkman" -O "lein"
+wget "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/technomancy/leiningen/${VERSION}/bin/lein.bat" -O "lein.bat"
+
+cd ..
+mkdir lib
+cd lib
+
+wget "https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/releases/download/${VERSION}/leiningen-${VERSION}-standalone.zip" -O "leiningen-${VERSION}-standalone.jar"
+
+cd ../..
+test -d "$OUT_DIR" || mkdir -p "$OUT_DIR"
+
+FILE_NAME="${OUT_DIR}/${SUB_DIR}.zip"
+
+zip "FILE_NAME" "$SUB_DIR"
+
+echo "Leiningen ${VERSION} was packaged to ${FILE_NAME}"
+
+
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+if [ "$1" = "" ]; then
+  echo "Usage: $0 VERSION"
+  exit
+fi
+
+VERSION="$1"
+URL="https://github.com/leiningen/leiningen-sdkman/releases/download/${VERSION}/leiningen-${VERSION}.zip"
+
+curl -X POST \
+-H "Consumer-Key: ${CONSUMER_KEY}" \
+-H "Consumer-Token: ${CONSUMER_TOKEN}" \
+-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
+-H "Accept: application/json" \
+-d "{\"candidate\": \"leiningen\", \"version\": \"${VERSION}\", \"url\": \"${URL}\"}" \
+https://vendors.sdkman.io/release