IMX477 driver installer fails: Cannot find corresponding deb package on Jetson Nano, kernel 4.9.253-tegra

Nvidia Jetson Cameras
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Hi everyone, I’m trying to get the IMX477 camera working on my Jetson Nano but the driver installation keeps failing. When I run the installer, I get this error:

Cannot find the corresponding deb package, please send the following:
Kernel version: 4.9.253-tegra-32.7.1-20220219090432
Jetson type: Nano

Also, the link in the instructions for versions prior to L4T32.4.3 doesn’t seem to work for me. Anyone seen this before?

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That error usually means the installer script couldn’t match your kernel to a package. Before digging into that, could you share the exact commands you ran to install the driver? That would help a lot in narrowing down what’s going on.

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Sure. Here’s what I did:

  1. On the Nano’s browser, I downloaded install_imx.sh from https://github.com/ArduCam/MIPI_Camera/releases/download/v0.0.2/install_imx.sh
  2. Changed the permissions of the shell script so it’s executable
  3. Ran the script from the download directory with ./install_imx477.sh
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I think I see the issue. You downloaded install_imx.sh, but then you ran ./install_imx477.sh. Those are two different file names, so the script you actually downloaded never got executed.

Try running the correct file in the directory where it was downloaded:

./install_imx.sh

(not ./install_imx477.sh)

The full steps are also covered in the quick start guide here: Quick Start Guide - Arducam Wiki

To recap:

  1. Download install_imx.sh from the GitHub releases page
  2. Make it executable (chmod +x install_imx.sh)
  3. Run ./install_imx.sh from the download directory
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That was it! I was running the wrong filename the whole time. After running ./install_imx.sh everything worked and the camera is functioning fine now. Thanks for the help!