# Nvidia-smi: command not found

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**Category:** Jetson Orin NX\
**Created:** [March 11, 2025, 6:42am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-smi-command-not-found/326686 "2025-03-11T06:42:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 6:42am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-smi-command-not-found/326686/1 "2025-03-11T06:42:08Z")

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sdk:Tegra\_Linux\_Sample-Root-Filesystem\_R35.3.1\_aarch64.tbz2

To use nvidia-smi command, what should I install?

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**Author:** ![AastaLLL](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/nvidia/user_avatar/forums.developer.nvidia.com/aastalll/32/14043_2.png) [@AastaLLL](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/AastaLLL)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 7:02am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-smi-command-not-found/326686/3 "2025-03-11T07:02:01Z")

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Hi,

nvidia-smi is available from JetPack 6.0.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![zhang.xiang](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/forums/profile-default-devtalk-84.png) [@zhang.xiang](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/zhang.xiang)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 7:21am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-smi-command-not-found/326686/4 "2025-03-11T07:21:43Z")

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How to get it?  
Now use this command in JetPack 5.

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**Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 11:08am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-smi-command-not-found/326686/5 "2025-03-11T11:08:44Z")

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Can you give me some guidance?

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**Author:** ![linuxdev](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/nvidia/user_avatar/forums.developer.nvidia.com/linuxdev/32/10243_2.png) [@linuxdev](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/linuxdev)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 5:28pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-smi-command-not-found/326686/6 "2025-03-11T17:28:14Z")

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Jetsons have a GPU which is integrated directly to the memory controller (an iGPU). `nvidia-smi` is mainly a desktop PC program for use with GPUs that are wired through the PCI bus, a.k.a., a discrete GPU with its own memory (a dGPU). `nvidia-smi` has, in the past, never worked with an iGPU. It is JetPack 6 (which installs L4T R36.x, which in turn is Ubuntu plus NVIDIA drivers) in which a partial `nvidia-smi` framework has been adapted to the iGPU. There is no chance of `nvidia-smi` working in L4T R35.x (which is what JetPack 5.x installs). You _must_ either (A) avoid using `nvidia-smi` as a GPU detection scheme, or (B), migrate to L4T R36.x+ (JetPack 6).

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**Author:** ![zhang.xiang](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/forums/profile-default-devtalk-84.png) [@zhang.xiang](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/zhang.xiang)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2025, 1:57am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-smi-command-not-found/326686/7 "2025-03-12T01:57:12Z")

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Thank you for your reply.

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**Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 1:19am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-smi-command-not-found/326686/10 "2025-04-09T01:19:17Z")

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