Build a debian package for your binary (box) to install in /usr/bin/

build-debian-package.sh

# Prepare the binary
mkdir mypackage; # root dir of the package creation
mkdir -p mypackage/usr/bin; # path to install
cp box mypackage/usr/bin # copy the binary 

# Prepare the debian control 
mkdir -p mypackage/DEBIAN/
cat > mypackage/DEBIAN/control << EOF
Package: myfancypackage
Version: 1.0-1
Maintainer: You <[email protected]>
Architecture: amd64
Description: flies aeroplanes
 Longer description here
 .
 As you can see, new paragraph are split by a single dot,
 and lines have to be indented by one space.
EOF

# Create the package
dpkg-deb -b mypackage .

# verify the package with `less <pkg>` or `dpkg -c <pkg>`

# Need a simpler approach?
# https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/wiki