# Upgrade Jetson AGX Orin to Ubuntu 24.04

# *** READ BEFORE UPGRADE ***

### Official Support is coming H1 2026

***This is under testing. I'm only playing with the Hardware. You can find issues maybe with GPU.
Kernel from 5.15 and to 6.12 it is compatible. Maybe I show how to compile them.***

***Canonical now is partner from Nvidia, so they distribute packages for tegra and SBSA.
MANDATORY READ --->*** https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/changes-to-ubuntu-for-tegra-kernel-metapackages-on-jetson-and-igx/48807

### Nvidia distribute packages for cuda-tegra ubuntu 24.04

https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2404/arm64/

#### Exists dristributions of drivers but are only compatible with Jetson Thor

Download all files (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/noble/+source/linux-nvidia-tegra):

# *** TUTORIAL AGX ORIN ***
Check and it should show on the result "Prompt=never": (This block distro ugprades)

grep 'lts' /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades
cat /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades

#### 1. Ensure the Prompt line in /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades is set to ‘lts‘ using the “grep” or “cat”

### 2. Upgrade Ubuntu with everything to Yes but *not reboot*

sudo apt update 
sudo apt full-upgrade
sudo do-release-upgrade -d
sudo apt full-upgrade
sudo apt install --fix-broken

### 3. Reboot

### 4. Add Ubuntu 24.04 packages

wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu2404/arm64/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb
sudo apt update
sudo apt-get install -y nvidia-container-toolkit

### 5. MANDATORY: Add again Jetpack 6 URLs

echo "deb https://repo.download.nvidia.com/jetson/common r36.4 main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nvidia-l4t-apt-source.list

echo "deb https://repo.download.nvidia.com/jetson/t234 r36.4 main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nvidia-l4t-apt-source.list

sudo apt update

sudo apt install --reinstall nvidia-l4t-core
sudo apt install --reinstall \
    nvidia-l4t-bootloader \
    nvidia-l4t-camera \
    nvidia-l4t-configs \
    nvidia-l4t-cuda \
    nvidia-l4t-cuda-utils \
    nvidia-l4t-firmware \
    nvidia-l4t-3d-core \
    nvidia-l4t-gbm \
    nvidia-l4t-display-kernel

# 6. FIX DOCKER to use JETSON-CONTAINERS

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y iptables iptables-legacy
sudo update-alternatives --set iptables /usr/sbin/iptables-legacy

# 7. Install jtop

sudo python3 -m pip install -U jetson-stats --break-system-packages

# *** THOR PACKAGES ***
**Jetpack 7 URLs:**

echo "deb https://repo.download.nvidia.com/jetson/common r38.1 main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nvidia-l4t-apt-source.list
echo "deb https://repo.download.nvidia.com/jetson/t234 r38.1 main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nvidia-l4t-apt-source.list

### Download

wget https://us.ports.ubuntu.com/pool/main/l/linux-nvidia-tegra/linux-buildinfo-6.8.0-1004-nvidia-tegra_6.8.0-1004.4_arm64.deb
wget https://us.ports.ubuntu.com/pool/main/l/linux-nvidia-tegra/linux-headers-6.8.0-1004-nvidia-tegra_6.8.0-1004.4_arm64.deb
wget https://us.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/pool/main/l/linux-signed-nvidia-tegra/linux-image-6.8.0-1004-nvidia-tegra_6.8.0-1004.4_arm64.deb
wget https://us.ports.ubuntu.com/pool/main/l/linux-nvidia-tegra/linux-modules-6.8.0-1004-nvidia-tegra_6.8.0-1004.4_arm64.deb
wget https://us.ports.ubuntu.com/pool/main/l/linux-nvidia-tegra/linux-modules-extra-6.8.0-1004-nvidia-tegra_6.8.0-1004.4_arm64.deb
wget https://us.ports.ubuntu.com/pool/main/l/linux-nvidia-tegra/linux-nvidia-tegra-headers-6.8.0-1004_6.8.0-1004.4_all.deb
wget https://us.ports.ubuntu.com/pool/main/l/linux-nvidia-tegra/linux-nvidia-tegra-tools-6.8.0-1004_6.8.0-1004.4_arm64.deb
wget https://us.ports.ubuntu.com/pool/main/l/linux-nvidia-tegra/linux-tools-6.8.0-1004-nvidia-tegra_6.8.0-1004.4_arm64.deb
wget https://us.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/pool/main/l/linux-nvidia-tegra-modules-signed/linux-modules-tegra-oot-jetson-devel-6.8.0-1004-nvidia-tegra_6.8.0-1004.4_arm64.deb
wget https://us.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/pool/main/l/linux-nvidia-tegra-modules-signed/linux-modules-tegra-igpu-jetson-devel-6.8.0-1004-nvidia-tegra_6.8.0-1004.4_arm64.deb
wget https://us.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/pool/main/l/linux-nvidia-tegra-modules-signed/linux-modules-tegra-igpu-jetson-devel-nvidia-tegra_6.8.0-1004.4_arm64.deb
wget https://us.ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/pool/main/l/linux-nvidia-tegra-modules-signed/linux-nvidia-tegra-tegra-igpu-jetson-devel-defaults_6.8.0-1004.4_all.deb

List

linux-buildinfo-6.8.0-1004-nvidia-tegra_6.8.0-1004.4_arm64.deb
linux-headers-6.8.0-1004-nvidia-tegra_6.8.0-1004.4_arm64.deb
linux-image-6.8.0-1004-nvidia-tegra_6.8.0-1004.4_arm64.deb
linux-modules-6.8.0-1004-nvidia-tegra_6.8.0-1004.4_arm64.deb
linux-modules-extra-6.8.0-1004-nvidia-tegra_6.8.0-1004.4_arm64.deb
linux-nvidia-tegra-headers-6.8.0-1004_6.8.0-1004.4_all.deb
linux-nvidia-tegra-tools-6.8.0-1004_6.8.0-1004.4_arm64.deb
linux-tools-6.8.0-1004-nvidia-tegra_6.8.0-1004.4_arm64.deb
linux-modules-tegra-oot-jetson-devel-6.8.0-1004-nvidia-tegra_6.8.0-1004.4_arm64.deb
linux-modules-tegra-igpu-jetson-devel-nvidia-tegra_6.8.0-1004.4_arm64.deb
linux-nvidia-tegra-tegra-igpu-jetson-devel-defaults_6.8.0-1004.4_all.deb

# Decompress Image

sudo zcat /boot/vmlinuz-6.8.0-1004-nvidia-tegra | sudo tee /boot/Image-6.8.0-1004-nvidia-tegra > /dev/null
ls -lh /boot/Image-6.8.0-1004-nvidia-tegra

# Change boot menu

sudo cp /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf.bak
sudo nano /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf

TIMEOUT 30
DEFAULT newkernel

MENU TITLE L4T boot options

LABEL newkernel
      MENU LABEL Ubuntu 24.04 (Kernel 6.8.0-1004-tegra)
      LINUX /boot/Image-6.8.0-1004-nvidia-tegra
      INITRD /boot/initrd.img-6.8.0-1004-nvidia-tegra
      APPEND ${cbootargs} root=/dev/nvme0n1p1 rw rootwait rootfstype=ext4 mminit_loglevel=4 console=ttyTCU0,115200 console=ttyAMA0,115200 firmware_class.path=/etc/firmware fbcon=map:0 nospectre_bhb video=efifb:off console=tty0 
      
LABEL primary
      MENU LABEL Ubuntu 24.04 (Kernel 5.15.148-tegra)
      LINUX /boot/Image
      INITRD /boot/initrd
      APPEND ${cbootargs} root=/dev/nvme0n1p1 rw rootwait rootfstype=ext4 mminit_loglevel=4 console=ttyTCU0,115200 console=ttyAMA0,115200 firmware_class.path=/etc/firmware fbcon=map:0 nospectre_bhb video=efifb:off console=tty0 

# When testing a custom kernel, it is recommended that you create a backup of
# the original kernel and add a new entry to this file so that the device can
# fallback to the original kernel. To do this:
#
# 1, Make a backup of the original kernel
#      sudo cp /boot/Image /boot/Image.backup
#
# 2, Copy your custom kernel into /boot/Image
#
# 3, Uncomment below menu setting lines for the original kernel
#
# 4, Reboot

# LABEL backup
#    MENU LABEL backup kernel
#    LINUX /boot/Image.backup
#    INITRD /boot/initrd
#    APPEND ${cbootargs}