This issue should act as an umbrella for this project. Use related issues to track the steps.

Creating and publishing Forge packages for Debian & Ubuntu would really help boost adoption of Forge, IMO. Telling someone to download an unzip seems simple enough, but there's just something even more elegant about:

sudo apt-get install jboss-forge

(no sudo if you're hip enough, one of those GUIs if your glitzy enough)

Debian provides guidelines for new package maintainers [1].

[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/