Definitive Guide to Using the Jetson TK1/TX1?

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Originally Posted by marshall

This post is terrible and contains very large unfriendly text as well as bad info. It's just spreading FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) without actually helping anyone.

Read the Nvidia docs. You need a 14.04 OS to run the JetPack installer (It says so in the docs). The JetPack installer will then install 16.04 onto the Jetson and all of the OpenCV goodness.

Some Googling will tell you that only C/C++ is supported for the OpenCV CUDA accelerated libraries. Python is not supported for this (I've been telling people this on CD for at least 2 seasons now and no one listens).

While this board is complicated to use. It's not that complicated and doesn't deserve a bad reputation with massive red text.

EDIT: YOU'RE WRONG.

While a lot of what he says seems to be quite restrictive (only Ubuntu 14.04), technically, that is what the Nvidia docs requires for the GUI. However, there are instructions which require some shell commands here. You could probably flash the TX1 using any GNU/Linux OS (probably BSD too).

I used Ubuntu 15.10 with these instructions, and it worked like a charm. The GUI essentially just does this, but the GUI was extremely messed up on my VM (screen size caused weird adjusting).

In any case, you only need a shell, `tar`, and likely `dd` (I'm not sure what is used internally) to install the L4T suite. This comes with: https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/linux-tegra-r242