NVIDIA SDK Manager Tutorial: Installing Jetson Software Explained

In 4 steps, the SDK Manager installs Jetson Linux and JetPack components on your Jetson Development Kit. Some of the power of this tool is hidden. The SDK Manager can be used to flash Jetson Nano, TX1, TX2, Xavier and Orin modules and development kits.

Here we do a walk through on flashing a Jetson Xavier NX Developer Kit to boot from a NVMe SSD.

00:00 What is SDK Manager
01:33 Install SDK Manager
02:14 Interface Walk Through
05:46 Flashing - Automatic Setup
06:57 Flashing - Manual Setup
09:20 Jetson Configuration Wizard
10:36 JetPack Install

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[johnminicucci]

Thanks for the video. Prior to this i failed miserably on my own. Nvidia makes everything seem harder than it should. Finally, I can run my expensive Xavier NX from its NVME drive without the gymnastics of booting from an sd first. Please keep up the good work.

[amirarsalanrajabi]

Without this life saver video I couldn’t have set up my Jetson. Thank you!

[harrisonlow]

Big thank you for this video (and others)! Your work has helped me so much so far. Finally, after over a week of trying countless approaches, I have an Orin Nano Dev Kit running off an SSD! So relieved right now!

[KeithMildenberger]

Hello Jim. Thank you for this video and the SSD install video. This helped me FINALLY get my new SSD card flashed so I could boot my Jetson Orin Nano from it. Keep up the good work ...please!

[jianzhuhuai]

Hi Jim, your tutorial is very helpful even to our guys in Mainland China. I watched this video and your AGX Orin + SSD video each at least twice as I flashed the jetson pack on the newly installed NVME SSD which is much faster than the native EMMC SD. I wonder what should we do about the EMMC SD, after flashing the jetson linux system to the NVME SSD, do we leave it alone or wipe it out since it seems the jetson linux system is still on it?

[btk.ivanov]

How do you switched to jatson configuration at min 9:20? How could I do that?

[wappy]

You're the man Jim thanks so much for these videos. Got my Jetson Orin setup on NVME today.

[anhtth]

Hi, thank you for great tutorial but I encountered some errors. I followed exactly your instruction but in the System configuration step I didnt have any options to configure the APP partition size. And when I finish flashing, my jetson only have around 15GB disk even though my 500GB SSD card was plugged in. How can I fix this, should I re-flash my jetson ??

[TheOnlyRiceman]

Thanks Jim, this was super helpful for setting up my orin Nano with NVME

[bunik]

Hi, does this also work with jeton Orion nano Development Kit? I had Problems with flashing via as Card so i want to try it with sek manager

[mateuszlompart]

Why 2 cores are disabled? It is always in jetson xavier nx? I have a jetson nano and i didn't see something similar.

[ballajaisheel]

iam getting some dependency error and install error while setup process what is should do

[krishmotiani]

Earlier you had uploaded a guide to install jetpack 4.1 in nvidia jetson agx xavier development kit.

My question is whether this sdkmanager guide can be used to achieve the same outcome you did in your previous installation guide for agx xavier development kit?

[MEmreTural]

Thanks for the great and detailed explanation. I have a question though. I do not have linux pc, is there any way that i can run this on windows? Like virtual machine or something?

[ericmasson]

Great little video. I was wondering why there are no CUDA support for the vanilla OpenCV 4.5.4?

[azrflourish]

Thanks for the video! I have a question, I need to install Jetpack 5.1.1 which is the newest version now? on complete NEW jetson agx xavier, does this video work for this situation also?

[Akashpatel-umuc]

Thank you very much for this video. Very nicely explained. Streamlined the full process for me. Thanks and keep up the good work :)

[surflaweb]

Can I install the sdkmanager in a vitual machine with ubuntu and then install cuda over ssh to the jetson orin nano or only we need to install the sdk manager inside the jetson orin nano and then install cuda? Im triying installing the sdkmanager in the orin but im getting errors.. Please tell me if I can do it "install remotly the cuda packages" Thanks

[MegaGippie]

I want to upgrade my jetson orin nx 16GB with P3 Plus 4.0 M.2. After following your tutorial i get an "can't put jetson orin nx in recovery mode" in recovery mode while flashing. Can you help me out?

I am working with Ubuntu 22.04.5 on 64-bit inside a vm on windows.
I can see the board with lsusb and the sdk manager does also find the bord in Step 01.

[yinshenglim]

I have problem with setting up the storage size, there is no option for me to set the APP partition size as shown in the video...can you help me with this?