Add Archlinux installation

[kikislater]

Add Archlinux installation

[vpoughon]

Hi kikislater, thanks for the contribution.

I'm not familiar with Arch, are you the maintainer of this AUR package? It would be interesting to keep closer tie with the Arch community. I found this page: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/orfeo-toolbox/ is it up to date? (The "upstream URL" link is wrong for example).

Note that there's a paragraph in our documentation about distribution packages that explains mostly why it's not recommented to install OTB with debian & co packages:

Other binaries can be available as packages (OSGeo packages, Debian/Ubuntu packages, OpenSuse packages), however be advised that they may not be up-to-date nor delivered with full features. If you want to build from source or if we don’t provide packages for your system, information is available in the :ref:compilingfromsource section.

Is that also true for Arch or is it different? What versions are available in the AUR package?

thanks

[kikislater]

Thanks for your reply.

No sorry I'm not the maintainer but could report it. Maintainer is @ArArgyridis on github.

Arch is different : there is repository and AUR. Due to rolling release packages even in AUR are in the latest version. AUR have tools like yaourt, trizen or others and build for you without worrying about building it with configure, cmake, make ... (It's the same with GUI like pamac available by default in manjaro : user clic on install package and packager build it for you and you could remove it whenever you want). Sometimes it's criticize because it's made from users and sometimes crap in PKGBUILD.

Version of this package is written though the link you give here : 6.6.1. I built my own otb with modified PKGBUILD through the one available with python3. Does Qt4 is really needed at this time or we could build with Qt5 as promoted in your release page ?

[vpoughon]

Qt4 is not required, you should be able to build with Qt5.

[kikislater]

Please notice there also another package related to otb :
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/qgis-otb-plugin/