How to Install CUDA on Jetson Nano in 2025?

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Hi,

I’m running Jetson Nano 4GB with JetPack 4.5.6 (Ubuntu 18.04), freshly flashed.
After boot, I noticed CUDA is not pre-installed:

cat /usr/local/cuda/version.txt
# No such file or directory

nvcc --version
# command not found

I tried:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-cuda-toolkit

but it fails with “package not found.”

I also followed old instructions:

wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu1804/sbsa/cuda-ubuntu1804.pin
sudo mv cuda-ubuntu1804.pin /etc/apt/preferences.d/cuda-repository-pin-600
wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/11.3.1/local_installers/cuda-repo-ubuntu1804-11-3-local_11.3.1-465.19.01-1_arm64.deb
sudo dpkg -i cuda-repo-ubuntu1804-11-3-local_11.3.1-465.19.01-1_arm64.deb
sudo apt-key add /var/cuda-repo-ubuntu1804-11-3-local/7fa2af80.pub
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install cuda

but those links appear to be for SBSA ARM servers, not Jetson Nano’s ARMv8 (Tegra).

Questions:

  1. In 2025, is there still an official CUDA download for Jetson Nano with JetPack 4.5.6?

  2. Is there a way to get CUDA preinstalled with a specific JetPack version when reflashing Jetson Nano?

Any help or updated instructions would be appreciated — most guides I find are from 2020–2021 and the links are dead now.

Thanks!

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Hi,

Please try below commands

sudo apt update
sudo apt install nvidia-jetpack

Thanks

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Doesnt this install latest Jetpack v6? How will this command help actually? @DavidDDD

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Hi,

Please check your /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nvidia-l4t-apt-source.list

The apt will fetch corresponding jetpack version.

Thanks

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I am using JetPack 4.6.5

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Hi,

Please try mentioned commands.

It will fetch JP 4.6.5 package.

Thanks

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Because of this command I ran out of space and I got stuck in a loop of dependencies

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Output:

nano@nano-desktop:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nvidia-l4t-apt-source.list 

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2019-2021 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved. 
# SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-NvidiaProprietary 
# 
# NVIDIA CORPORATION, its affiliates and licensors retain all intellectual 
# property and proprietary rights in and to this material, related 
# documentation and any modifications thereto. Any use, reproduction, 
# disclosure or distribution of this material and related documentation 
# without an express license agreement from NVIDIA CORPORATION or 
# its affiliates is strictly prohibited.  

deb https://repo.download.nvidia.com/jetson/common r32.7 main 
deb https://repo.download.nvidia.com/jetson/t210 r32.7 main
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Hi,

Please provide your error log when run apt install nvidia-jetpack.
What free space do you have before install nvidia-jetpack?

Thanks

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I am skipping this method and trying to reflash from SDK manager. Now it has whole another error.

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I just cleared some space and retried the commands again.

sudo apt install nvidia-jetpack

It worked but however nvcc –version didnt work
So I used this

and it worked

@DavidDDD

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