Jetson AGX Orin Flash using Sdkmanager CLI

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson AGX Orin
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Im using a vm (I know there are issues here but they are not related right now) with ubuntu 20.04, I am a super user on the device and whenever I try to run sdkmanager all the way through installation and prompts me for sudo in the sdk command panel it doesnt accept my credentials. When I try to sudo sdkmanager this is the error I get

user@jetsonmachine:~$ sudo sdkmanager --cli --offline --license accept --download-folder /home/user/Downloads/nvidia/sdkm_downloads
You are running SDK Manager as root user (or with root privilege). Please note: all installed files will be owned by root,
and SDK Manager configuration and log files will be saved to: /.nvsdkm directory.
Do you want to continue? Yes
Warning: --offline in args will be deprecated soon. Please use: --login-type offline
Installing from: /home/user/Downloads/nvidia/sdkm_downloads

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

  • Welcome to NVIDIA SDK MANAGER v2.3.0.12617 +
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

┏ Login ---------------------------------------- ┓
✔ Loading data from local folder /home/user/Downloads/nvidia/sdkm_downloads
Component dependencies may require access to online repositories.
Hello User :)
✔ Loading server data…
✔ Loading and processing available products…
┗ ---------------------------------------------- ┛

┏ Install options ------------------------------ ┓

  • Select action: Install
  • Select product: Jetson
  • Select system configuration: Host Machine [Ubuntu 20.04 - x86_64], Target Hardware
  • Select target hardware: Jetson AGX Orin modules
  • Select target operating system: Linux
  • Select SDK version: (No available option, press to go back)
    ────────────────────────────────
    JetPack 6.2 [ Cannot execute as super user ]
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Just saw this sdkmanager-docker-container

so unless you did it already might be a way to attempt flash from vm.

docker run -it --privileged -v /dev/bus/usb:/dev/bus/usb/ -v /dev:/dev -v /media/$USER:/media/nvidia:slave --name JetPack_AGX_Orin_Devkit --network host sdkmanager --cli --action install --login-type devzone --product Jetson --target-os Linux --version 6.2 --target JETSON_AGX_ORIN_TARGETS --flash --license accept --stay-logged-in true --collect-usage-data enable --exit-on-finish

If you expect to need to flash from docker container again then:

After install and flash, commit the container as a new image.

docker commit JetPack_AGX_Orin_Devkit jetpack_agx_orin_devkit:6.2_flash

docker container rm JetPack_AGX_Orin_Devkit

Next, flash can be executed from the created image directly, without additional arguments. The container can then be removed after flash is complete.

docker run -it --rm --privileged -v /dev/bus/usb:/dev/bus/usb/ jetpack_agx_orin_devkit:6.2_flash

Here’s what I initially typed:
running this

sdkmanager --query non-interactive --product Jetson

emits this among other options.

JetPack 6.2

sdkmanager --cli --action install --login-type devzone --product Jetson --version 6.2 --target-os Linux --target JETSON_AGX_ORIN_TARGETS --flash

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OK so I am no longer using a VM or docker. I have a host machine (ubuntu 20.04) and whenever i try to run the sdk manager (either gui or cli) when it comes to the installation part of the process I get asked to enter my sudo password into the app but it does not take my password. When I use sudo to start the sdkmanager it tells me that installation of jetpack is not available as superuser. So I get stuck on this part of installation I am not too sure what to do here. Has anyone else encountered this issue?

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On your ubuntu ‘host’ desktop run the following to install sdkmanager requirements on your host computer (correct the path if it is installed elsewhere).

sudo ~/nvidia/nvidia_sdk/JetPack_6.2_Linux_JETSON_AGX_ORIN_TARGETS/Linux_for_Tegra/tools/l4t_flash_prerequisites.sh

sudo apt update
sudo apt install qemu-user-static binfmt-support

sudo update-binfmts --enable

If you now still have problems with sdkmanager here’s the Nvidia documents:

Log In and Run SDK Manager

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im getting hit with this even after running through the steps provided

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To be clear; that box wants your local computer logon password. Which may be different from your developer.nvidia.com password unless you made them the same.

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I understand what the box is asking, it wont accept my sudo credentials for my computer and im asking is there a way to bypass this or why is it only inside the sdkmanager interface that it wont accept my sudo credentials

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Try this.

sudo apt-get purge sdkmanager

If you already did the following 3 lines then just install sdkmanager. Otherwise do all 4 lines.

wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/[distro]/x86_64/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb
sudo apt-get update

sudo apt -y install sdkmanager

Replace the [distro] in “wget” line with your host os version : ubuntu1804, ubuntu2004, ubuntu2204, or ubuntu2404

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user@agb329:~$ sudo apt -y install ~/Downloads/sdkmanager_2.3.0-12617_amd64.deb
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Note, selecting ‘sdkmanager’ instead of ‘/home/user/Downloads/sdkmanager_2.3.0-12617_amd64.deb’
The following NEW packages will be installed:
sdkmanager
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/89.2 MB of archives.
After this operation, 4,096 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 /home/user/Downloads/sdkmanager_2.3.0-12617_amd64.deb sdkmanager amd64 2.3.0-12617 [89.2 MB]
Selecting previously unselected package sdkmanager.
(Reading database … 214243 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack …/sdkmanager_2.3.0-12617_amd64.deb …
Unpacking sdkmanager (2.3.0-12617) …
Setting up sdkmanager (2.3.0-12617) …
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.64ubuntu1) …
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) …
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1ubuntu1) …
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.24-1ubuntu3) …
N: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file ‘/home/user/Downloads/sdkmanager_2.3.0-12617_amd64.deb’ couldn’t be accessed by user ‘_apt’. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)

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following will give user _apt required permissions to /tmp

sudo chmod 1777 /tmp

and then run this again

sudo apt -y install ~/Downloads/sdkmanager_2.3.0-12617_amd64.deb

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It didnt work, no matter what I do i end being prompted for sudo on the installation step and getting hit with “Sudo Validation Command Failed”

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you could try this to see if problem is group membership

sudo usermod -a -G adm,sudo,docker,nvidia $USER

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usermod: group ‘docker’ does not exist
usermod: group ‘nvidia’ does not exist

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Hi,
Please try the manual steps and see if it works:

Quick Start — NVIDIA Jetson Linux Developer Guide 1 documentation

You can download Driver Package (BSP) and Sample Root Filesystem from

Jetson Linux Release 36.4.4 | NVIDIA Developer

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