Packaging for Linux
Finally, let's learn how to generate packages for Linux. In this recipe, we are going to make a package with a complex app that uses three files. This package will be a single file that can run without installing Kivy or Python in Linux.
Getting ready
First, you need to run a Linux distro and install Kivy, but you will need the development version. You can check how to do this at http://kivy.org/docs/installation/installation.html#installation-devel.
Also, you need to install the PyInstaller package. There are different ways to do it, but for our purpose, the way best is to download from the source https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyInstaller/2.0.
Decompress the package in the directory of your preference. Actually, we are going to ...
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