Darknet: Linux Packages

[acxz]

Some great work has been done in this fork of darknet. Are there plans for releasing linux packages for this fork? It would make the installation process much smoother. Maybe like a Ubuntu PPA or an ArchLinux AUR package?

[AlexeyAB]

@cenit Hi, What do you think about it?

[cenit]

Hi @acxz. All my recent work here has been made towards this goal. So yes I hope together with @alexeyab to release packages for the most important package managers (it is already published on vcpkg which is available on Mac/windows/ubuntu), like brew and a ppa, and also a container

[acxz]

Nice! Looking forward to it. I would be interested in helping maintain an ArchLinux AUR package.
(That is once I figure out how to install this repo ;p)

[cenit]

@acxz if you are starting out, I suggest using vcpkg ;)

./vcpkg install darknet[opencv]

[acxz]

haha I meant installation via source. Since making package build recipes start from there.

[cenit]

Vcpkg builds packages from sources, directly on your pc. It contains also the recipe it uses to build it, driving CMake and the compiler

[acxz]

That would definitely be helpful to see then.

[cenit]

I wrote the recipe also there (and is under review an update), so it’s my fault if it doesn’t work :rofl:

You find it on github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg

[acxz]

I finally got around to creating an ArchLinux package for this repo. Here it is: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/darknet-alexeyab-git/

[AlexeyAB]

@acxz Thanks!

[acxz]

np. I was wondering about adding a section on the readme that lists all ports, but right now it would be pretty bare with only vcpkg and the archlinux package. Maybe once there is a ubuntu package, having such a section would be helpful.