Warning ! These packages may not be up-to-date with latest OTB releases. In addition, some features of the library may not be available on every platform. Some of these are not maintained by the OTB-team. If you want to get involved in the packaging of OTB for your platform, please contact us through the developer’s mailing list : otb-developers@googlegroups.com.
Since version 3.12, we provide OTB Applications packages through OSGeo4W for Windows XP/Seven users:
Follow the instructions in the installer and select the packages you want to add. The installer will proceed with the installation of selected packages and all their dependencies. For the otb-bin packages, it will be available directly in the OSGeo4W shell, for example run
For the otb-python packages, you can simply check from an OSGeo4W shell the list of available applications:
There are OTB packages for Debian (unstable) since version 5.2.0. OTB Applications packages may be available as Debian packages through APT repositories:
Due to license issues, the OTB package built in Debian doesn’t contain 6S. As a consequence, the package does not contain the OpticalCalibration application.
For Ubuntu 12.04 and higher, OTB Applications packages may be available as Debian packages through APT repositories:
Since release 3.14.1, OTB Applications packages are available in the ubuntugis-unstable repository.
Since release 5.2.0, the Ubuntu packages derive from the Debian packages.
You can add it by using these command-lines:
After you can run:
If you are using Synaptic, you can add the repositories, update and install the packages through the graphical interface.
For further informations about Ubuntu packages go to ubuntugis-unstable launchpad page and click on Read about installing.
apt-add-repository will try to retrieve the GPG keys of the repositories to certify the origin of the packages. If you are behind a http proxy, this step won’t work and apt-add-repository will stall and eventually quit. You can temporarily ignore this error and proceed with the update step. Following this, aptitude update will issue a warning about a signature problem. This warning won’t prevent you from installing the packages.
For OpenSuse 12.X and higher, OTB Applications packages are available through zypper.
First, you need to add the appropriate repositories with these command-lines (please replace 11.4 by your OpenSuse version):
Now run:
Alternatively you can use the One-Click Installer from the openSUSE Download page or add the above repositories and install through Yast Package Management.
There is also support for the recently introduced ’rolling’ openSUSE distribution named ’Tumbleweed’. For Tumbleweed you need to add the following repositories with these command-lines:
and then add the OTB packages as shown above.
OTB Applications are now available on MacPorts. The port name is called ’orfeotoolbox’. You can follow the MacPorts documentation to install MacPorts first, then install the ’orfeotoolbox’ port. After the installation, you can used directly on your system, the OTB applications.