NI Linux Device Drivers 2026 Q1 Compatibility

For a list of supported hardware, refer to the NI Hardware and Operating System Compatibility page. For details about a specific driver's system requirements, limitations, and so on, refer to the readme for the individual driver (linked below).

The following table shows driver support for several Linux distributions. Use your Linux distribution's package manager to install the specified add-on files for an NI driver.

There are several categories of optional packages including:

LabVIEW support packages: These packages install the driver APIs to LabVIEW. These have the driver and 'labview' in the package name. They come in two types: version-specific LabVIEW support packages (the older style) which list a year and version-agnostic LabVIEW support packages (the newer style). Only use the version-specific LabVIEW support package when there's one that matches the version of LabVIEW that you need to use. Otherwise use the version-agnostic one.

Development packages: These packages install header files that are needed to compile code with the driver, but that aren't required to execute code that was compiled somewhere else. Typically this is needed on the development machine, but not always on a deployed system. These package names end with "-devel".

driver-DAQmx support packages: NI-DCPower, NI-DMM, NI-FGEN, NI-RFSA, NI-RFSG, NI-SCOPE, and NI-SWITCH each 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 models.

For additional information about supported operating systems, refer to the NI Operating System Support Roadmap.

For an introduction to using Linux with NI products, refer to About the NI Platform on Linux