Best way to install ROS2 Humble on Jetson AGX Xavier as of August 2025

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson AGX Xavier
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Hello!

I would like to install ROS2 Humble within Docker (for example using nvcr.io/nvidia/l4t-base:35.4.1 as a base image), on a Jetson AGX Xavier. Since support was dropped for Isaac ROS 2.1 and the packages were deleted from the NVIDIA repository if I understand correctly, what are the alternatives of installing Humble on the specific setup? Preferably I would like to use a patched version of OpenCV 4.7 from my own fork and not rely on the default OpenCV version for Humble.

Thank you in advance!

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You could refer to [Guide] Upgrading Jetson Xavier NX to Ubuntu 22.04 for ROS2 Humble Support (with Known Issues) - Jetson & Embedded Systems / Jetson Xavier NX - NVIDIA Developer Forums

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@kayccc Thank you for your response! From what I understand from this guide you linked, if I successfully carry it out I would be effectively running a newer Ubuntu image on an older, probably incompatible kernel, on a production environment. In your opinion, what risks would that entail?

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As you know that we don’t support newer Ubuntu on Xavier, even ROS, so you will need to overcome any issue you met, sorry for that.