Hello, I recommend you to check this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Complete
The best way to release the software to Ubuntu users is by means of a PPA (https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA) so that people can track your application updates automatically. Before the PPA is created you need to have a launchpad account and a sign the Ubuntu Code of Conduct. However isn't that hard and you just have to do all this setup for the first time. A tool that might be used to automate package creation for an application is Quickly (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Quickly). However, if the project development has already started, probably it won't be useful for you. Best regards, Javier 2009/9/25 Olof Bjarnason <olof.bjarna...@gmail.com>: > Hi! > > I write small games in Python/PyGame. I want to find a way to make a > downloadable package/installer/script to put on my webpage, especially > for Ubuntu users. > > I've skimmed a couple of tutorials on how to generate .deb-files, but, > wow, it's a whole new skill set to do that! > > Does anyone have any hint on a more economic way of creating > single-file distribution packages for Python+PyGame projects? Maybe > some GUI-tool that automates the .deb file creation process, but > targetting Python specifically and not C++. > > /Olof > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list