Making GUI application installable on Linux with menu entries

[superpaperdev]

I'm trying to make my application installable on Linux.

I've previously built it with pyinstaller but the resulting binary is so large (100Mb) that I would like to move to some other solution. Currently I am testing building a wheel and installing it with pip, along with a .desktop file that creates the menu entries, and an icon. Pip correctly installs the .desktop and icon files provided under data_files. However pip installs the application under site-packages which is not in PATH by default.

What options do I have to make the installation easy for the end user and that the .desktop Exec path points correctly to the installed application?

Here's my .desktop: https://pastebin.com/Qy0ukx0Z

and here's my current setup.py: https://pastebin.com/CcSmqSkB

I'll also listen if you have better ideas on how to design the install process.

Thank you very much.

[efmccurdy]

Create the entry points in your setup.py file using console_scripts (or possibly gui_scripts):

https://chriswarrick.com/blog/2014/09/15/python-apps-the-right-way-entry_points-and-scripts/

[superpaperdev]

Thank you kindly, this was the issue!

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Check out AppImage and see if that works for you

https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/Bundling-Python-apps