As of June 30, 2025, the Isaac ROS Buildfarm for Isaac ROS 2.1 on Ubuntu
20.04 Focal is no longer supported.
Due to an isolated infrastructure event, all ROS 2 Humble Debian packages
that were previously built for Ubuntu 20.04 are no longer available in the
Isaac Apt Repository. All artifacts for Isaac ROS 3.0 and later are built
and maintained with a more robust pipeline.
You do not need to install the ZEDSDK because this is done by Dockerfile.zed.
Note
You must install the ZEDdriver.
Plug in the USB cable of your ZED camera before launching the Docker container in the next step.
Configure the container created by isaac_ros_common/scripts/run_dev.sh to include Dockerfile.zed. Create the .isaac_ros_common-config file in the isaac_ros_common/scripts directory:
This rebuilds the container image using Dockerfile.zed in one of its layered stage. It takes some time for rebuilding.
After the container image is rebuilt and you are inside the container, you can run /usr/local/zed/tools/ZED_Explorer to check that the ZED camera is connected.
/usr/local/zed/tools/ZED_Explorer
If everything is working as expected, you should see something similar to the following: