How to install Mediapipe on the Jetson Nano ?

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MediaPipe on the Jetson Nano

Last Updated on 08/10/2025 by Eran Feit

This tutorial elaborates how to install MediaPipe on the Jetson Nano.

This is the 2022 version with the last Jetpack (Q1 2022)

just follow the steps and you will get the Mediapipe install on your jetson nano

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More Jetson Nano tutorials :
Real-Time Jetson Image Classification with OpenCV and GoogLeNet Jetson Nano Real-Time Image Classification with OpenCV and GoogLeNet

Here are some files used in the tutorial :

Setup.txt

pip install setup
wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
sudo python3 get-pip.py
rm get-pip.py


sudo pip3 install pip --upgrade
sudo pip3 install opencv_contrib_python

git clone https://github.com/PINTO0309/mediapipe-bin
cd mediapipe-bin

./v0.8.5/numpy119x/mediapipe-0.8.5_cuda102-cp36-cp36m-linux_aarch64_numpy119x_jetsonnano_L4T32.5.1_download.sh

sudo pip3 install \
numpy-1.19.4-cp36-none-manylinux2014_aarch64.whl \
mediapipe-0.8.5_cuda102-cp36-none-linux_aarch64.whl

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How to Install MediaPipe on jetson-nano

#How to install Media pipe on jetson nano 2022 
# The starting point is a flashed new SD card with Jetpack 4.6


# Increase swap for more swap ram
# ===============================
git clone https://github.com/JetsonHacksNano/installSwapfile.git  
cd installSwapfile

./installSwapfile.sh


# setup - pre install include Python and pip
# ===================

sudo apt update
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3-pip
sudo pip3 install -U pip testresources setuptools==49.6.0

# python libraries for Tensorflow
# ================================

sudo apt-get install libhdf5-serial-dev hdf5-tools libhdf5-dev zlib1g-dev zip libjpeg8-dev liblapack-dev libblas-dev gfortran


# Install more Python libraries
# =================================

sudo pip3 install -U --no-deps numpy==1.19.4 future==0.18.2 mock==3.0.5 keras_preprocessing==1.1.2 keras_applications==1.0.8 gast==0.4.0 protobuf pybind11 cython pkgconfig

# part of Numpy -> store large amount of data in binary format
sudo env H5PY_SETUP_REQUIRES=0 pip3 install -U h5py==3.1.0

sudo apt-get install python3-opencv

#install media pipe from the source code
#=======================================


git clone https://github.com/google/mediapipe.git
cd mediapipe

# install more libraries for the media pipe setup
# ===============================================
sudo apt-get install -y libopencv-core-dev  libopencv-highgui-dev libopencv-calib3d-dev libopencv-features2d-dev libopencv-imgproc-dev libopencv-video-dev

# set permissions for the setup script file 
sudo chmod 744 setup_opencv.sh


# run installation from source code : about 30 minutes
# ====================================================
./setup_opencv.sh



# last step
sudo pip3 install opencv_contrib_python
git clone https://github.com/PINTO0309/mediapipe-bin
cd mediapipe-bin

sudo apt install curl

./v0.8.5/numpy119x/mediapipe-0.8.5_cuda102-cp36-cp36m-linux_aarch64_numpy119x_jetsonnano_L4T32.5.1_download.sh

sudo pip3 install numpy-1.19.4-cp36-none-manylinux2014_aarch64.whl
sudo pip3 install mediapipe-0.8.5_cuda102-cp36-none-linux_aarch64.whl
pip3 install dataclasses 


#download examples from here : https://github.com/feitgemel/BodyPos/tree/master/MediaPipe/Demo

git clone https://github.com/feitgemel/BodyPos.git
cd BodyPos
cd MediaPipe
cd Demo
python3 MediaPipe-Holistic.py

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