Unattended installation of nbm plugins

development
#1

Hi,

I’d like to automate installation of a couple of *.nbm plugins on existing SNAP installations. Installation of these plugins using the UI works fine.

I tried using the cmd line tool:
[root@daemsd bin]# ./snap --modules --install /opt/vito/icor/sta/iCOR-landsat8-sta-1.0.0-LINUX.nbm
Cannot install. No match for [/opt/vito/icor/sta/iCOR-landsat8-sta-1.0.0-LINUX.nbm].

This doesn’t seem to work, but maybe this is not the right approach?

Regards,
Dirk

External Tools - command line installation
Command line IDEPIX installation in SNAP 7.0.0
#2

I get a similar error on windows:

> snap64 --nosplash --nogui --modules --refresh --install "C:\Program Files\VITO\iCOR\sta\iCOR-sentinel2-sta-1.0.0-WINDOWS.nbm"
Cannot understand regular expession 'C:\Program Files\VITO\iCOR\sta\iCOR-sentinel2-sta-1.0.0-WINDOWS.nbm'
Cannot install. No match for [null].

We rely here on NetBeans functionality. I’ve asked in their forum if this is a known issue.

Thanks for letting us know

Update:
I’ve updated the wiki page and put a note that this is currently not working.

#3

The windows error looks a bit different since snap is getting “null” rather than the file path, but I’m having the same issue as OP. Any ideas are welcomed.

[root@server ~]# /opt/snap/5.0.0/bin/snap --nosplash --nogui --modules --install /root/s3tbx-c2rcc-0.18-SNAPSHOT.nbm
/opt/snap/5.0.0/bin/../platform/lib/nbexec: WARNING: environment variable DISPLAY is not set
Cannot install. No match for [/root/s3tbx-c2rcc-0.18-SNAPSHOT.nbm].
#4

Also tried passing a .jar since that is what the help text asks for, but got the same result.

[root@server ~]# /opt/snap/5.0.0/bin/snap --help
Usage: /opt/snap/5.0.0/bin/../platform/lib/nbexec {options} arguments
...
Additional module options:
...
  --install <arg1>...<argN> Installs provided JAR files as modules



[root@server ~]# /opt/snap/5.0.0/bin/snap --nosplash --nogui --modules --install s3tbx-c2rcc-0.18-SNAPSHOT.jar
Cannot install. No match for [s3tbx-c2rcc-0.18-SNAPSHOT.jar].
#5

Any update on this issue?

I am trying to dockerize my dependencies and this is causing me a lot of trouble to port my already developed extensions.

Any workaround?

Thanks

#6

The installation of an additional module is still not working.
But there are other ways.
If you have developed the extension and build it on your own, then you can use the cluster which is generated during the build process.
I just wrote a brief guide how it can be done.
Adding an external module cluster to SNAP
The guide might not yet be complete and maybe contains some errors, as I just quickly wrote it down. Let me know if you struggle with it.

As a note for using SNAP in a docker. The property where auxdata (DEM, land-water mask, etc.) is stored should be configured. Usually, this data is downloaded on demand and stored in the user directory.
When using docker this directory is cleaned with every start and the data needs to be downloaded again.
In the file snap.auxdata.properties the property AuxDataPath should be set to some location outside of the docker container.

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#7

Thanks marpet, again pointing to the good solution.
I just added the cluster folder and now I see my operators through gpt -h and I can successfully execute them.

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#8

Sorry to reopen this, how about if I want to run my operators through snappy? I’m replacing my gpt scriplets by snappy and I don’t seem able to include my nbm-clusters

Command line IDEPIX installation in SNAP 7.0.0
#9

I also had to install unmanaged third-party *.nbm plugins on an Ubuntu were I had only a command line at hand. So I ended up just unzipping the *.nbm file and copying the the content of /netbeans/ to ~/.snap/system. This worked just fine for the few plugins I installed this way.

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