Merge pull request #978 from carlosdamazio/freezing-code-linux

Adding instructions in Linux stubs in section "Freezing Your Code".
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bbFreeze
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.. warning:: bbFreeze will ONLY work in Python 2.x environment, since it's no longer being maintained as stated by it's former maintainer. If you're interested in it, check the repository in `here <https://github.com/schmir/bbfreeze>`_.
bbFreeze can be used with all distributions that has Python installed along with pip2 and/or easy_install.
For pip2, use the following:
.. code-block:: console
$ pip2 install bbfreeze
Or, for easy_install:
.. code-block:: console
$ easy_install bbfreeze
With bbFreeze installed, you're ready to freeze your applications.
Let's assume you have a script, say, "hello.py" and a module called "module.py" and you have a function in it that's being used in your script.
No need to worry, you can just ask to freeze the main entrypoint of your script and it should freeze entirely:
.. code-block:: console
$ bbfreeze script.py
With this, it creates a folder called dist/, of which contains the executable of the script and required .so (shared objects) files linked against libraries used within the Python script.
Alternatively, you can create a script that does the freezing for you. An API for the freezer is available from the library within:
.. code-block:: python
from bbfreeze import Freezer
freezer = Freezer(distdir='dist')
freezer.addScript('script.py', gui_only=True) # Enable gui_only kwarg for app that uses GUI packages.
freezer()
PyInstaller
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PyInstaller can be used in a similar fashion as in OS X. The installation goes in the same manner as shown in the OS X section.
Don't forget to have dependencies such as Python and pip installed for usage.