[marshall]

I would suggest following the jetpack installation guide. Missing packages is a symptom of not following that guide completely from what I've seen on the Nvidia embedded forums.

As for if you've made a mistake with the TK1. It's a great platform and more and more teams are using is successfully. That being said, I always tell teams who want to 'get started' with vision processing to start with the examples provided by FIRST/WPI and the GRIP program. It's not as sexy/cool/exciting but it is the right place to start. Once you have the basics down then a raspberry pi, kangaroo PC, Jetson, or android device is a solid way to progress.

Make sure you thoroughly read through the installation guide and if you're still stuck then post some output and logs so we can help you out a bit.