$ py2pack fetch zope.interface downloading package zope.interface-3.6.1... from http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/z/zope.interface/zope.interface-3.6.1.tar.gz As a next step you may want to generate a package recipe for your distribution. For RPM -based distributions (let's use openSUSE as an example), you want to generate a spec file (named 'python-zope.interface.spec'): $ py2pack generate zope.interface -t opensuse.spec -f python-zope.interface.spec