diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 62608c2bd..fcd0fd32a 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -31,4 +31,5 @@ elmd-conn.json
 tests/bitcoin
 tests/bitcoin.binary
 tests/bitcoin.compile
-token.sh
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+token.sh
+src/cryptoadvance/specter/translations/**/messages.mo
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diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index de6bf6af9..5390690a1 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ check:
    - pip3 install -r requirements.txt
    - pip3 install -e .
    - pip3 install -r test_requirements.txt
+   - python3 setup.py install # compiles babel stuff as well (might make pip install obsolete)
    # pytest --docker not working? Uncomment this for better debugging:
    # - python3 tests/conftest.py 
    - py.test --cov-report term --cov cryptoadvance --docker
@@ -65,6 +66,7 @@ check:
     # start the server in the background
     - pip3 install -e .
     - pip3 install -r test_requirements.txt
+    - python3 setup.py install # compiles babel stuff as well (might make pip install obsolete)
     - npm i
     - ./utils/test-cypress.sh --docker --debug run
     - docker ps || echo "probably no docker available anyway"
diff --git a/DEVELOPMENT.md b/DEVELOPMENT.md
index 49551cab1..f1f8cd6c0 100644
--- a/DEVELOPMENT.md
+++ b/DEVELOPMENT.md
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ virtualenv --python=python3 .env
 source .env/bin/activate
 pip3 install -r requirements.txt --require-hashes
 pip3 install -e .
+python3 setup.py install # also compiles the babel translation-files
 ```
 
 _note: invoking commands in the Windows PowerShell is slightly different:_
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 5163bdb63..0531cc4b6 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 recursive-include src/cryptoadvance/specter/templates *
 recursive-include src/cryptoadvance/specter/static *
+recursive-include src/cryptoadvance/specter/translations/*/LC_MESSAGES *.mo
 include requirements.txt
diff --git a/babel/README.md b/babel/README.md
index a889ffcdc..2bd1715c9 100644
--- a/babel/README.md
+++ b/babel/README.md
@@ -176,3 +176,18 @@ The only other step is to add the new language to the LANGUAGES list in `config.
 # right:
     "he": "עברית",
 ```
+
+## For Packagers:
+The mo-files are not checked into the repository as (large) binary (large) objects ("BLOBs") should not be checked into git to reduce repo-size bloat. So effectively they need to be generated before the user is using the software. Effectively what has been described above:
+
+```
+pybabel compile -d src/cryptoadvance/specter/translations
+```
+
+In order to make that as transparent as possible, that procedure has been integrated into the setup-process. So it will be executed by:
+
+```
+python3 setup.py install
+```
+
+Unfortunately, it won't be executed by `pip3 install -e .` even though that has been propagated very long to be the developement-env installation procedure. So in the various installation procedures (mainly in `.gitlab-ci.yml`) this has been changed. For more special packaging mechanism, this needs to be respected as well.
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diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b5c347ce0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[compile_catalog]
+directory=src/cryptoadvance/specter/translations
+domain=messages
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index cc6150587..c5c70d552
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,11 +1,30 @@
+from babel.messages import frontend as babel
 from glob import glob
 
 from setuptools import find_namespace_packages, setup
 
+from setuptools.command.install import install
+
+
+class InstallWithBabelCompile(install):
+    """from this stackoverflow question
+    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40051076/compile-translation-files-when-calling-setup-py-install
+    """
+
+    def run(self):
+        from babel.messages.frontend import compile_catalog
+
+        compiler = compile_catalog(self.distribution)
+        option_dict = self.distribution.get_option_dict("compile_catalog")
+        compiler.domain = [option_dict["domain"][1]]
+        compiler.directory = option_dict["directory"][1]
+        compiler.run()
+        super().run()
+
+
 with open("requirements.txt") as f:
     install_reqs = f.read().strip().split("\n")
 
-
 # Filter out comments/hashes
 reqs = []
 for req in install_reqs:
@@ -28,6 +47,11 @@ setup(
     url="https://github.com/cryptoadvance/specter-desktop",
     packages=find_namespace_packages("src", include=["cryptoadvance.*"]),
     package_dir={"": "src"},
+    package_data={
+        "": [
+            "translations/*/LC_MESSAGES/messages.mo",
+        ]
+    },
     # take METADATA.in into account, include that stuff as well (static/templates)
     include_package_data=True,
     install_requires=reqs,
@@ -38,4 +62,12 @@ setup(
         "Framework :: Flask",
     ],
     python_requires=">=3.6,<3.10",
+    cmdclass={
+        "install": InstallWithBabelCompile,
+        # The rest is convenience but not strictly necessary for the automation:
+        "compile_catalog": babel.compile_catalog,
+        "extract_messages": babel.extract_messages,
+        "init_catalog": babel.init_catalog,
+        "update_catalog": babel.update_catalog,
+    },
 )
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