[OSGeo Africa] Problem with QGIS QGIS2.4 OTB folder

[Kevin Musungu]

Thanks Zoltan. I had installed it via the standalone because that is what I
am accustomed to. I will try figure out the OSGEO4 installation method and
see if our technitians can do it on all the PCs. Thanks.
Regards
Kevin
On 13 Jul 2014 14:56, "Zoltan Szecsei" <zoltans at geograph.co.za> wrote:

>  On 2014/07/13 13:55, Kevin Musungu wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
> I would like to use QGIS in my remote Sensing classes next semester.I am
> trying to run Orfeo toolbox 'learning' image analysis algorithms as I
> develop Remote Sensing practicals. We installed QGIS 2.4 on our PCs through
> the standalone exe. However I get an error stating I need to configure the
> OTB folder. I assume this refers to the applications and command lines tool
> folders. The online solutions I have found only seem to work if QGIS was
> installed via OSGEO4w. Is there any solution for the standalone version?
> Regards
> Kevin
>
>
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>  Hi Kevin,
> I can't answer your question directly, but I am curious why you did not
> install using OSGEO4w installer, as it is extremely flexible and gives you
> easy access to all the OSGEO software, including the dependencies they may
> have.
> If there is no real reason, then rather download/reinstall all the
> required software onto 1 system using OSGEO4w, and then install on the
> other PCs pointing OSGEO4w to this first system.
>
> Have you looked at Monteverdi?
> The great thing about it is that as you build up your command using the
> GUI, it displays the command-line syntax that you could use should you want
> to script a chain of processes.
> IMHO, all GIS students must learn to at least "script" if not "programme",
> so this would also facilitate as an easy intro to command line usage.
> (I use inverted commas because in the simplest case, stringing together a
> bunch of command line commands in a BAT file is a script)
>
> HTH,
> Zoltan
>
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