It extends to deployment. Off top of my head, the script that you have to write to trivially deploy with virtualenv is something like: virtualenv --no-site

It extends to deployment. Off top of my head, the script that you have to write to trivially deploy with virtualenv is something like: virtualenv --no-site-packages -p$PYTHON $workdir "$workdir/bin/activate" (cd $my-package-dir && python setup.py) "$workdir/bin/deactivate" virtualenv --relocatable "$workdir" fpm -s dir -t deb -n "$package" -p "$package.deb" -d <system dependencies> ... And you have a deb that you can just scp anywhere and it'll just work.