How To Install otb-bin-qt on Debian 10

Learn how to install otb-bin-qt on Debian 10 with this tutorial. otb-bin-qt is ORFEO Toolbox graphical user interface applications

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install otb-bin-qt on Debian 10.

What is otb-bin-qt

otb-bin-qt is:

ORFEO Toolbox (OTB) is distributed as an open source library of image processing algorithms. OTB is based on the medical image processing library ITK and offers particular functionalities for remote sensing image processing in general and for high spatial resolution images in particular.

This package contains the GUI launcher that can run any OTB application provided by libotb-apps package.

There are three methods to install otb-bin-qt on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install otb-bin-qt Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install otb-bin-qt using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install otb-bin-qt

Install otb-bin-qt Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install otb-bin-qt using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install otb-bin-qt

Install otb-bin-qt Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install otb-bin-qt using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install otb-bin-qt

How To Uninstall otb-bin-qt on Debian 10

To uninstall only the otb-bin-qt package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove otb-bin-qt

Uninstall otb-bin-qt And Its Dependencies

To uninstall otb-bin-qt and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove otb-bin-qt

Remove otb-bin-qt Configurations and Data

To remove otb-bin-qt configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge otb-bin-qt

Remove otb-bin-qt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove otb-bin-qt configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge otb-bin-qt

Dependencies

otb-bin-qt have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install otb-bin-qt package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.