Monteverdi was developed 4 years ago in order to provide an integrated application for capacity building activities (teaching, simple image manipulation, etc.). Its success went far beyond this initial scope since it opened the OTB world to a wide range of users who needed a ready to use graphical tool more than a library of components to write their own processing chain. With this 4 years of lifetime, we have a lot of feedbacks regarding how useful the tool was, but also regarding what should be improved to move toward greater usability and operationnality. We therefore decided to rework the Monteverdi concept into a brand new software, enlightened by this experience.
Monteverdi2 offers a new interface based on Qt and a set of processing capibilities base on OTB-Applications.
Installation of Monteverdi2 is very simple. Standard installer packages are available on the main platforms thanks to OTB-Developpers and external users. These packages are available few days after the release. Get the latest information on binary packages on the Orfeo ToolBox website in the section download.
We will discribe in the following sections the way to install Monteverdi2 on:
- Windows platform (XP/Seven/8.1)
- Ubuntu 12.04 and higher
- MacOSX 10.8
If you want build from source or if we don’t provide packages for your system, some informations are available into the OTB Software Guide , in the section (Building from Source)
For Windows XP/Seven/8.1 users, there is a classical standalone installation program for Monteverdi2 , available from the OTB download page after each release of Monteverdi2 .
A standard DMG package is available for Monteverdi2 for MacOS X 10.8. Please go the OTB download page . Click on the file to launch Monteverdi2 . We will provide in the next release a package for MacOSX 10.9.
For Ubuntu 12.04 and higher, Monteverdi2 package may be available as Debian package through APT repositories.
Since release 0.2, Monteverdi2 packages are available in the ubuntugis-unstable repository.
You can add it by using these command-lines:
sudo aptitude install add-apt-repository sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable
Now run:
sudo aptitude install monteverdi2
If you are using Synaptic, you can add the repository, update and install the package through the graphical interface.
apt-add-repository will try to retrieve the GPG keys of the repositories to certify the origin of the packages. If you are behind a http proxy, this step won’t work and apt-add-repository will stall and eventually quit. You can temporarily ignore this error and proceed with the update step. Following this, aptitude update will issue a warning about a signature problem. This warning won’t prevent you from installing the packages.
You can find more information about Monteverdi2 into the post of the OTB blog at http://blog.orfeo-toolbox.org/.