JetPack 6.2.2 is now out in the wilds for the Jetson Orins. While it’s a minor point upgrade, it fixes a CUDA memory allocation problem introduced in the last update. If you have a Jetson Orin already running JetPack 6.2+, you can update on the device directly. Looky here:
A note:
Note: In the JetPack 6.2.2 announcement in the forum, there are a couple of malformed commands shown when upgrading the system. Make sure to read the pinned note on the video or video description to correct them.
You can also use the traditional NVIDIA SDK Manager and SD card installations if you want to reinstall from scratch.
Jetson Forum Announcement
The forum announcement is here, reprinted verbatim here for convenience:
We are pleased to announce the production release of JetPack 6.2.2. JetPack 6.2.2 packages Jetson Linux 36.5 with Linux Kernel 5.15 and Ubuntu 22.04 based root file system. JetPack 6.2.2 is a minor upgrade over JetPack 6.2.1. This release supports all NVIDIA Jetson Orin modules and developer kits.
What’s new in JetPack 6.2.2
- Fixes for known issues and security vulnerabilities.
You can install JetPack 6.2.2 with any of the methods below
- SDK Manager: You can do a fresh install of JetPack 6.2.2 using SDK Manager.
- Debian Package: If you have JetPack 6 already installed on Jetson AGX Orin Developer Kit or Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit, you can upgrade to JetPack 6.2.2 using APT. Refer to the steps here.
- Manual Flashing: If you prefer to install using the command line, you can flash Jetson device from a linux host by following steps here. Once Jetson Linux is flashed, you can install the compute stack using SDK Manager (using linux host) or by running “sudo apt update” followed by “sudo apt install nvidia-jetpack” on Jetson.
- SD Card: If you are using Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit, you can download the SD Card image from JetPack 6.2.1 page and use Balena Etcher to prepare the SD Card with JetPack 6.2.1. You can then follow the instructions below to APT upgrade to JetPack 6.2.2.
STEP 1: Edit source.list to point to 36.5
vi etc/apt/sources.list.d/nvidia-l4t-apt-source.list
change all repo versions to r36.5 in this file
STEP 2: APT upgrade and reboot
sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade
sudo apt install –fix-broken -o Dpkg: :=“–force-overwrite”
Note: JetPack 6.2.2 packages the same libraries, components and supports the same SDKs as JetPack 6.2.1.
JetPack 6.2.2/ Jetson Linux 36.5 resources
Certainly worth having a look!
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I’m sorry to say that my Orin Nano Super is out of the box but still uninitialized from the factory. I get so confused from the instructions that refer to other instructions that refer back to the original instructions. Almost ad infinitum, it seems.
Please help me figure out where to start and the SIMPLEST method to be my Orin Nano “super” online and working. Maybe I’m just dense but I’ve had no problems with the original Jetson board, or the 2Gb Nano, or the 4Gb Nano. But the super has my brain spinning in circles. When I try to init using the purely nvme drive method, it fails. When I try the SD card init to lead to the 6.x, it fails. So my Nano “super” is still on factory default and I haven’t tried it by itself since nVidia did not user the standard update method I’ve used dozens of times on PC’s.
Even this page is running from a 4Gb Nano and even though I connected an external USB drive and established a 64 Gb swap space, it still is not large enough to even handle more than a few web pages at a time without waits that sometimes take hours!
Again, please, someone help this simpleton get my Nano Orin “super” up and running. And yes, I did attempt Ubuntu 22.x to get it up and going.
I’m not clear on how you’ve tried to get it to work. Did you use the NVIDIA SDK Manager? What version of firmware is installed when it boots? That’s on the green splash screen before it gets to the OS. Which SD card image are you attempting to flash? Have you run the Jetson before?