Getting Started with Jetson Using SDK Manager on Ubuntu 22.04

The finale version, after many, many attempts

This tutorial will cover how to install Ubuntu 22.04 on NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin and Jetson Orin NX with the NVIDIA SDK Manager.

The NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin ships with Ubuntu 20.04 with relatively easy setup procedures for NVIDIA drivers and tools. If this is sufficient for your application, please refer to this tutorial instead:

Using Jetson AGX Orin with Provided Ubuntu 20.04 System

Requirements

• NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin Development Kit or NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX Development Kit and its accessories.

• DisplayPort cable and a compatible monitor.

• USB Type A keyboard and mouse

• A Linux host computer with Ubuntu 22.04 or 20.04.

NVIDIA SDK Manager has strict requirement on the host OS version. The system compatibility matrix is available from the SDK Manager website:

Install NVIDIA SDK Manager

Download SDK Manager from this website.

After download, use apt package manager to install the application.

sudo apt install ~/Downloads/sdkmanager_2.2.0-12021_amd64.deb

Launch SDKManager from the app search page.

Hardware Connection

Connect USB keyboard and mouse, and the DisplayPort port to a monitor.

Connect to the host computer with the provided USB Type-C to Type A cable using the port near the 40 pin header.

Lastly, while holding the recovery button (middle button), connect the USB Type-C power cable. The device will enter recover mode and can be detected on the USB port.

Flashing the Device

After connecting the hardware and powering up the device, it should automatically detect the USB device connection.

Select the correct device type.

Choose the desired component to install. Here we select everything.

After entering the system password, it will begin to download and install the components.

After it's done, it will prompt to configure the account information and ask for the installation location.

We will install to the built-in eMMC device.

About one third into the installation process, the Jetson will reboot and boot into the system.

When this happens, the SDKManager on the host computer will create this prompt.

Wait until the Jetson boots up fully, then log into the system, and then click Install on the host side.

If it cannot find the device through the USB connection, try Ethernet connection instead.

Note

Sometimes it will report this error:

ERROR Flash Jetson Linux - flash: exportfs: Failed to stat /home/tk/Downloads/nvidia/nvidia_sdk/JetPack_6.2_Linux_JETSON_ORIN_NX_TARGETS/: No such file or directory

In case this happens, a possible solutions is as follows.

sudo nano /etc/exports

Remove ALL the uncommented lines in the file.

Then, try the installation again.

The rest of the installation takes about one hour to finish.

Finally, to verify the installed version, run the following commands on Jetson

sudo apt show nvidia-jetpack -a

Reference

https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/learn/jetson-agx-orin-devkit-user-guide/two_ways_to_set_up_software.html

Starting over

To remove all the existing configurations of the SDK Manager, run the following command

rm -rf ~/.nvsdkm/