Distributing a Python based application on Linux

[Ed Suominen]

One of the beauties of Linux is that you are neither required nor encouraged
to put together the big, monolithic installation packages that Windows
typically requires. Most (all?) distributions will include Python and most
of the modules you'll be needing.

-Ed Suominen

Ramki wrote:

> Hi !!
> 
> I have written an install script to deploy some of my product rpms.
> The install script does OS Version Check, OS Memory check, logging the
> status of install into a log file amongst other things.
> 
> Now the size of my product rpms is around 3 MB. If I am to distribute
> Python along with the install, it is taking around 12 MB totally (the
> python gz tar is around 9 MB), which is not ideal.
> 
> Is there way I can avoid this by distributing only the bare minimum
> Python related binary along with my rpms ?
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> thanks,
> Ram.