Installing JetPack 4.2 - NVIDIA SDK Manager

Overview

JetPack 4.2 should be installed using The NVIDIA Software Development Kit (SDK) Manager which is a tool that bundles developer software and provides an end-to-end development environment setup solution for NVIDIA SDKs.

Requirements for Jetson

• Ubuntu Linux 16.04 or 18.04 x64 host-machine with working Internet connection.
• Memory: 8GB
• A minimum of 25GB free disk space on the system volume is needed for each full (host and target) deployed SDK version.
• X11 must be enabled on the host.

Install Nvidia SDK Manager

1. Download Nvidia SDK Manager in your host machine from https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/downloads

2. Install debian package

sudo apt install ./sdkmanager-[version].[build#].deb 

Install JetPack 4.2

Launch SDK Manager and enter the credentials for your account type, and click Login.

sdkmanager

Step 1: Setup the Development Environment

Select product category, hardware configuration and target operating system, then press continue.

For example to build JetPack for Jetson AGX Xaver:

• Jetson product.
• Host Machine and Target Hardware: Jetson AGX Xavier
• Linux Jetpack 4.2

Figure 1. Development Environment

Step 2: Review Components and Accept Licenses

• Review host and target components that will be installed and accept the terms and conditions of the license agreements.
• You can also select your desired download and target HW image folders by clicking "Download & Install Options".
• Press continue

Figure 2. Review Components

Step 3: Installation

A security window will appear, so enter your password to proceed. Then you the download and installing process will begin.

Figure 3. Installation

A window will appear when the image is ready to be flashed into target board:

• Select manual setup and put the board into recovery mode.
• When the flash finished, connect keyboard, mouse and monitor to the target board in order to set initial configuration (language, country, username and password) for the Jetson system.

Figure 4. Flash

A new window will appear asking for the Jetson's username/password in order to install components. You can skip this if you just need a basic setup.

Figure 5. Components Installation

Step 4: Finalize Setup

At the end you will see a summary of the components installed, just press "Finish and Exit"

Figure 6. Finalize Setup