Switch off of L4T Base images

[benmccann]

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Proposal

If I understand correctly, NVIDIA is no longer publishing L4T Base Docker images with the last one having been published in 2023: https://catalog.ngc.nvidia.com/orgs/nvidia/containers/l4t-base

I think it's now preferred to use L4T CUDA images
https://catalog.ngc.nvidia.com/orgs/nvidia/containers/l4t-cuda?version=12.6.11-runtime
https://hub.docker.com/r/nvidia/cuda
CUDA 12 / L4T 36 / Jetpack 6
CUDA 11 / L4T 34-35 / Jetpack 5

There's also L4T Jetpack, but the images are much larger
https://catalog.ngc.nvidia.com/orgs/nvidia/containers/l4t-jetpack

Use-Case

It would be great if this made it possible to run the latest Ubuntu LTS and thus ROS 2 Jazzy on a Jetpack 6 host

Anything else?

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[benmccann]

Someone posted a working solution here: stereolabs/zed-ros2-wrapper#409 (comment). However, it uses the dustynv images which have much less support of varying L4T and ROS versions. E.g. You can't use Jazzy with L4T 36.3 with that solution