Whatever project you're working on, you should be able to package your apps. PyInstaller works out of the box with PyQt5 and as of writing, current versions of PyInstaller are compatible with Python 3.6+. If you're impatient, you can download the Example Ubuntu Package first. So, if you want to create an Ubuntu package do this on Ubuntu. You always need to compile your app on your target system. Thanks to the magic of fpm the instructions will also work for other Linux distributions, such as Redhat. deb package, the usual method for distributing application on that systems. You can choose to follow it through completely, or skip to the parts that are most relevant to your own project.

This tutorial is broken down into a series of steps, using PyInstaller to build first simple, and then more complex PyQt5 applications into Linux executables. In this tutorial we'll look at how to do just that, first using PyInstaller to bundle our application into a executable app and then using a tool called fpm to convert that into a Linux package. But to make your application truly cross-platform you should also provide installers for Linux. In the previous tutorials, we've looked at packaging your PyQt5 applications for Windows and macOS - turning them into EXE Installers and macOS bundles respectively.

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