May 19, 2014 - Installing ROS on the Jetson TK1
Notes on installing ROS on the NVIDIA Jetson TK1.
Getting the board booted was simple; just plug in a keyboard, HDMI and power! Getting a graphical environment was a little more difficult. It comes with the drivers on the board, but you have to run the installer script before theyre installed and active, as described in this README. Ive also found that I need to switch to the console and restart lightdm after initial boot before the graphical environment will come up properly.
The OS appears to be a stock or mostly-stock Ubuntu 14.04, pointed at the official ports.ubuntu.com repository, so it should be quite compatible with ROS once debs are built.
From there, I added trusty to my ARM repository, pulled in the latest python debs, and pointed the board at the repository. I also had to enable the universe repository in /etc/apt/sources.list, and then I was able to install the python debs to support ROS.
From there, I’m following the ROS Indigo Source instructions. I expect it to take quite a while to download and compile; I’ll update back on the progress later.
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