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+Instructions to install bb-freeze and use it to build a bb-frozen Tahoe on Unix:
+
+```
+git clone https://github.com/schmir/bbfreeze.git
+cd bbfreeze
+sudo python setup.py install
+cd ..
+
+git clone https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf.git
+cd patchelf
+./bootstrap.sh
+./configure
+make
+sudo make install
+cd ..
+
+cd tahoe
+python setup.py build
+PYTHONPATH=`bin/tahoe @sh -c 'echo "${PYTHONPATH}"'`:`pwd`/src bb-freeze static/tahoe.py
+cd dist
+tahoe --help
+```