Executable created in CentOS not working in Ubuntu

Question

I have developed a pygtk application. Now I have to deploy it on a client machine.

So I created an executable using PyInstaller in a CentOS 5 machine (since Pyinstaller depends on glibc and to select lower glibc I used centOS 5).

Now when I'm trying to run the application in Ubuntu11.04 Machine it loads the application but instead of text it shows the square boxes in GUI.

And following error messages get printed in the command line.

Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/tmp/_MEIwDbvRA/User.py:88: GtkWarning: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/home/arrowdevices/pda/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache': No such file or directory
/tmp/_MEIwDbvRA/User.py:94: GtkWarning: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/home/arrowdevices/pda/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache': No such file or directory
/tmp/_MEIwDbvRA/User.py:100: GtkWarning: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/home/arrowdevices/pda/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache': No such file or directory
/tmp/_MEIwDbvRA/User.py:114: GtkWarning: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/home/arrowdevices/pda/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache': No such file or directory
/tmp/_MEIwDbvRA/User.py:120: GtkWarning: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/home/arrowdevices/pda/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache': No such file or directory
/tmp/_MEIwDbvRA/User.py:130: GtkWarning: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/home/arrowdevices/pda/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache': No such file or directory
/tmp/_MEIwDbvRA/User.py:140: GtkWarning: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/home/arrowdevices/pda/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache': No such file or directory
/tmp/_MEIwDbvRA/User.py:197: PangoWarning: No modules found:
No builtin or dynamically loaded modules were found.
PangoFc will not work correctly.
This probably means there was an error in the creation of:
  '/home/arrowdevices/pda/etc/pango/pango.modules'
You should create this file by running:
  pango-querymodules > '/home/arrowdevices/pda/etc/pango/pango.modules'
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/11-lcd-filter-lcddefault.conf", line 9: invalid constant used : lcddefault
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/53-monospace-lcd-filter.conf", line 17: invalid constant used : lcdlegacy
/tmp/_MEIwDbvRA/User.py:197: PangoWarning: failed to find shape engine, expect ugly output. engine-type='PangoRenderFc', script='latin'
/tmp/_MEIwDbvRA/User.py:197: PangoWarning: failed to find shape engine, expect ugly output. engine-type='PangoRenderFc', script='common'
/tmp/_MEIwDbvRA/User.py:197: GtkWarning: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/home/arrowdevices/pda/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache': No such file or directory

My questions:

1. How can I cleanly package the icons and fonts into the executable created by PyInstaller?
2. Pyinstaller seems to be hardcoding file paths into the executable. How can we avoid this?

Answer 1

I'd search for Ubuntu binary. CentOS and Ubuntu are very, very different system. The catalog structure can vary.