Install Mission Center on Nvidia Jetson

Mission Center

Beautiful and powerful task manager

Features:

  • Monitor overall or per-thread CPU usage
  • See system process, thread, and handle count, uptime, clock speed (base and current), cache sizes
  • Monitor RAM and Swap usage
  • See a breakdown how the memory is being used by the system
  • Monitor Disk utilization and transfer rates
  • Monitor network utilization and transfer speeds
  • See network interface information such as network card name, connection type (Wi-Fi or Ethernet), wireless speeds and frequency, hardware address, IP address
  • Monitor system fans (even the pi5's active cooler)
  • See a breakdown of resource usage by app and process
  • Supports a minified summary view for simple monitoring
  • Use hardware accelerated rendering for all the graphs in an effort to reduce CPU and overall resource usage
  • Uses GTK4 and Libadwaita
  • Written in Rust

Fortunately, Mission Center is very easy to install on your Nvidia Jetson in just two steps.

  1. Install Pi-Apps - the best app installer for Nvidia Jetson.
  2. Use Pi-Apps to install Mission Center.

Compatibility

For the best chance of this working, we recommend using the latest version of Nvidia Jetpack for your specific Jetson (Jetson Xavier, or Jetson Orin).
Mission Center will run on L4T Ubuntu ARM64.

Install Pi-Apps

Pi-Apps is a free tool that makes it incredibly easy to install the most useful programs on your Nvidia Jetson with just a few clicks.

Open a terminal and run this command to install Pi-Apps:

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Botspot/pi-apps/master/install | bash

Feel free to check out the Pi-Apps source code here: https://github.com/Botspot/pi-apps

Install Mission Center

Now that you have Pi-Apps installed, it is time to install Mission Center.
First launch Pi-Apps from your start menu:

Then click on the System Management category.

Now scroll down to find Mission Center in the list.

Just click Install and Pi-Apps will install Mission Center for you!

Pi-Apps is a free and open source tool made by Botspot, theofficialgman, and other contributors. Find out more at https://pi-apps.io