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Commit 07e333a0 authored by Guillaume Pasero's avatar Guillaume Pasero
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DOC: caveats for Linux installation

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......@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ double-click on the file, or with the command line :
chmod +x OTB-|release|-Linux64.run
./OTB-|release|-Linux64.run
The self-extractible archive only needs common tools found on most Linux
distributions ("sed", "grep", "find", "cat", "printf", "ln", ...). However, be
aware that it requires tools such as "which" and "file" (they are not always
present, for instance when building a container).
Please note that the resulting installation is not meant to be moved,
you should uncompress the archive in its final location. Once the
archive is extracted, the directory structure is made of:
......@@ -33,7 +38,15 @@ archive is extracted, the directory structure is made of:
In order to run the command line launchers, this package doesn’t require
any special library that is not present in most modern Linux
distributions. The graphical executable (otbgui launchers, Monteverdi
distributions. There is a small caveat for "expat" though. The binaries depend
on "libexpat.so", which can be supplied by most package managers (apt, yum, ...).
If not already present, look for one of the following packages :
::
libexpat-dev libexpat1-dev
The graphical executable (otbgui launchers, Monteverdi
and Mapla) use the X11 libraries, which are widely used in a lot of
distributions :
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