[Ubuntu] Re: [Qgis-developer] otb debs available

[Julien Malik]

Hi,

Le 16/04/2012 02:57, Alex Mandel a écrit :
>
> I believe the hold up previously was a libtiff linking issue in gdal
> which should be resolved now. I'll look into testing and copying from
> the otb ppa to the ubuntugis repo.

When developing the OTB->Sextante->Qgis bridge during the HackFest, I 
was using qgis 1.7.4 from ubuntugis-unstable ppa, and otb from our own ppa.

It works since we took a different approach than before and now Sextante 
is calling the OTB command line tools ('otb-bin' package).
Previously we used the otb python bindings, so qgis and otb were loaded 
in the same process, and this is where we hit the issue with 
libtiff/libgeotiff. I confirm this issue is fixed with gdal 1.9, but 
gdal 1.9 is not available (yet ?) for all the distro.

Now, it should just work.
I believe it is safe to copy the otb packages into ubuntugis-unstable. 
It works ok for the "otb inside sextante inside qgis" project.

Cheers,
Julien