Sdkmanager archived versions display not working consistently

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson Systems Jetson Orin NX
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Helllo Team Nvidia,

It seems that new Installations of SDK Manager cannot access all the archived versions when instantiating with $sdkmanager–archived-versions.

In this case I have three x86 hosts. Each is running ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS. Each has installed sdkmanager 2.4.13236x86_64. All are on my same wired network with internet access

One host, my trusty old desktop tower of power, shows many options, specifically 5.1.2 and 5.1.3. This sdkmanager was installed some tiime ago and upgraded when sdkmanager requested..

The other two hosts have fresh installs. These only show SDKs back to 5.1.5 or 5.1.6. when called with —archived-versions.

SDK’s 5.12 and 5.13 are important to my thousand unit customer. Yes we can do it from the terminal. Yes I dumped the flash log to see all the commands. But I want my customer to use the approved sdkmanager method.

I read elsewhere on the forum, that the list of archived sdk’s are refreshed from nvidia servers when calling sdkmanager —archived–versions. Yes I uninstalled and reinstalled older versions of sdkmanager too. Nothing helps. Is there a config file that holds these versions???

So can someone please have sdkmanager archived-versions actually show all the archived versions.

I get it that we want to drive developers forward away from unsupported SDKs. However, as the Jetson installed base gets bigger there will be an increased demand for access via sdkmanager. Not every support engineer is gonna be a keyboard jockey and the GUI should simply work.

The weird thing, is that I can access most all SDKs from one machine and not all machines.

Hope to hear back soon,

Best

David

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Hi,

Please try add --show-all-versions in cli.

–show-all-versions Prints all available product versions for the user. If it is not set, SDK
Manager will only list the primary product versions.

Thanks

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Thanks David.

Yes that does work. For the casual user, its not obvious that there is a CLI. Also, the GUI when launched with --achived-versions, shows a “show all files option” too. Maybe in a future release the GUI “show all files” can work the same way as the CLI “show all files”

Thank you for fixing my issue. It is still puzzeling why the GUI on the dektop has the versions in a list and the other two hosts must go to a CLI to get them.

Best,

David

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Forgot to mention… sdkmanager gui suggests using --archivedversions. When doing so we get the warning that --archivedversions will be deprecated and we should use --archived-versions. Of course the next update should probably reflect that change. Just trying to be helpful. :-)