Problem after upgrade from Ubuntu 18 to Ubuntu 20

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson Nano
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Hi, good morning!

This is my first post here, so, please, bear in mind with me. If this is not the correct place to ask the next question, just, let me know where can I ask it.

The thing is, we’ve acquired a Jetson Nano Developer Kit board (more precisely Okdo Nano Developer Kit) and after playing a bit with the device I’m in the need to update the Ubuntu operating system from 18 to 20 LTS and the problem is I just cannot update the system. Even if I just update the system (I mean, apt update && apt-upgrade) I allways get errors in the upgrade (you can see the log in the attached file)
error_upgrade_jetson_nano.txt (152.3 KB)
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Right now, I’m working with a SD card, and the process I’m following to flash the SD are based on the next link Get Started With Jetson Nano Developer Kit

I don’t know exactly what is the problem, I’ve reflashed the same image “jetson-nano-jp461-sd-card-image.zip” for six times right now.

I tried looking for same errors on the forum and on google, but I just cannot find the solution. The next links shows some options I followed to try to upgrade the system:
https://qengineering.eu/install-ubuntu-20.04-on-jetson-nano.html
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/ubuntu-20-04-on-jetson-nano/249716
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/solution-dpkg-error-processing-package-nvidia-l4t-bootloader-configure/208627

Please, can anyone help me with this problem?
Thank you so much in advance.

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Officially Jetson nano only supports ubuntu 18.04. It is normal is cannot upgrade.

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Hi @WayneWWW, thank you so much for your answer.

Do you know if the lack of support to Ubuntu 20.04 in Jetson Nano is due to some incompatibility between HW & SW (maybe a problem with the bootloader, device drivers, or event a problem with the new version of the Linux Kernel…) ? Or is it due to other problem? If this is the case, please, can you give me more info abut the exact problem (if possible)?

Thank you so much in advance!

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Hi @gbernaldo

It is more related to our software roadmap. Jetson Nano is not same as Xavier or later Orin AGX/Nano product.

It is T210 SoC released for like almost 7 years ago. The software support for it has been in maintenance mode. There won’t be new feature for this product anymore.

If you have requirement, please try Orin series platform. which will have ubuntu 20.04/22.04 and even 24.04 in future.

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Ok, thank you so much for your answer!

I’ll manage that

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