bdist_deb

This command is available on Linux systems; It is a simple wrapper around ‘alien’ that creates an RPM distribution, then converts to a DEB distribution.

Added in version 7.0.

Please check the options on the command line:

cxfreeze bdist_deb --help

python setup.py bdist_deb --help

The following options are available for the command:

bdist-base

base directory for creating built distributions

build-dir

directory of built executables and dependent files [default: “rpm” under bdist-base]

dist-dir

directory to put final built distributions in (the DEB and the RPM files) [default: “dist”]

Since an RPM command is executed and then converted to DEB, additional options must be specified for the bdist_rpm command before conversion.