Supported Driver Packages for Linux Distributions

To install the specified packages for the following NI drivers, use the package manager for your Linux distribution.

Table 1. Supported NI Driver Packages for Linux Distributions
Driver Required Package Optional Packages
NI-488.2 ni-488.2 libni4882-devel

ni-488.2-iotrace-support
Automotive Diagnostic Command Set Toolkit ni-adcs ni-adcs-labview-20xy-supportlib

nidiagcs-devel
NI-DAQmx ni-daqmx ni-daqmx-labview-20xy-support

ni-daqmx-labview-supportlib

nidaqmx-devel
NI-DCPower ni-dcpower ni-dcpower-daqmx

ni-dcpower-labview-20xy-support

ni-dcpower-labview-support

ni-dcpower-devel
NI-DMM ni-dmm ni-dmm-daqmx

ni-dmm-labview-20xy-support

ni-dmm-labview-support

ni-dmm-devel
ECU Measurement and Calibration Toolkit ni-ecumc ni-ecumc-labview-20xy-support

libniemcc-devel
NI-FGEN ni-fgen ni-fgen-daqmx

ni-fgen-devel

ni-fgen-labview-support

ni-fgen-labview-20xy-support
FlexRIO ni-flexrio ni-flexrio-795x

ni-flexrio-796x

ni-flexrio-797x

libniflexrioapi-devel

ni-flexrio-modulario-libs-devel
Hardware Configuration Utility ni-hwcfg-utility —
PXI Platform Services ni-pxiplatformservices ni-pxiplatformservices-labview-20xy-support

ni-pxiplatformservices-labview-support

ni-pxiplatformservices-devel
NI-RIO ni-fpga-interface ni-rio-mxie
NI R Series ni-rseries —
NI-RFSA ni-rfsa ni-rfsa-daqmx

ni-rfsa-labview-20xy-support

ni-rfsa-devel
NI-RFSG ni-rfsg ni-rfsg-daqmx

ni-rfsg-labview-20xy-support

ni-rfsg-devel
NI-SCOPE ni-scope ni-scope-daqmx

ni-scope-labview-20xy-support

ni-scope-labview-support

ni-scope-devel
NI-Serial ni-serial —
NI-SWITCH ni-switch ni-switch-daqmx

ni-switch-daqmx-config

ni-switch-labview-support

ni-switch-labview-20xy-examples

ni-switch-devel
NI-Sync ni-sync ni-sync-devel

ni-sync-labview-20xy-support

ni-sync-labview-support
System Configuration ni-syscfg-runtime ni-syscfg-labview-20xy-support

ni-syscfg-labview-support

ni-iotrace

ni-syscfg-devel
NI-VISA ni-visa ni-visa-labview-20xy-support

ni-visa-labview-support

ni-visa-devel
NI-XNET ni-xnet ni-xnet-labview-20xy-support

libnixnet-devel
NI RIO enables connections through the FPGA Interface API to remote RIO devices such as CompactRIO, Single-Board RIO, and Ethernet RIO.

The following are categories of optional packages:

  • LabVIEW support packages—These packages install the driver APIs to LabVIEW. LabVIEW support packages have driver and "labview" in the package name. There are two types of LabVIEW support packages:
    • Version-specific LabVIEW support packages—An older style of LabVIEW support packages that lists a year. Only use this support package when the LabVIEW support package matches the version of LabVIEW that you are using.
    • Version-agnostic LabVIEW support packages—A newer style of LabVIEW support packages. Use this support package when you cannot find a LabVIEW support package that matches the version of LabVIEW that you are using.
  • Development packages—These packages install the header files that are required to compile code with the driver, but that are not required to execute code compiled somewhere else. Typically, development packages are required on the development machine but not always on a deployed system. Development package names end with "-devel".
  • Driver-DAQmx support packages—The following packages have a few hardware devices that have separate drivers built on top of NI-DAQmx. These packages function as the top-level driver package for those particular hardware devices.
    • NI-DCPower
    • NI-DMM
    • NI-FGEN
    • NI-RFSA
    • NI-RFSG
    • NI-SCOPE
    • NI-SWITCH