January 2022
This file contains installation instructions and compatibility information for NI Linux Device Drivers 2022 Q1.
You can find more release information, such as known issues, bugs fixed since the last release, and other notes about this release, in the NI Linux Device Drivers Release Notes. For more general NI Linux information, refer to the NI Linux Users Community on ni.com.
Product Security and Critical Updates
NI Linux Device Drivers software provides Linux Desktop support for a variety of NI test and measurement hardware. It offers repository registration packages for each supported Linux distribution. Once the appropriate driver software repository is registered for the system, use the Linux distribution's native package manager to install NI driver software packages.
Refer to Download and Install NI Driver Software on Linux Desktop.
NI Linux Device Drivers are installed from one of the following two options.
"Firstlook" is present in repository registration package names, for example ni-ubuntu2004firstlook-drivers-2021Q3.deb, to identify a repository that does not contain one or more of the drivers present in the other feeds. This commonly occurs when NI adds support for a new Linux OS distribution and there is a transition period while individual drivers are gradually added or validated on that distribution.
If you plan to upgrade to a new distribution and you see "firstlook" in its NI repository registration package name, refer to the Supported Drivers table to ensure that the NI products you need support the new distribution.
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.
| Driver | Packages | RHEL1/ CentOS 7 Kernel 3.10 | RHEL1 8 Kernel 4.18 | SUSE2 15.1 Kernel 4.12 | SUSE2 15.2 Kernel 5.3 | Ubuntu3 18.04 Kernel 5.4 First Look | Ubuntu3 20.04 Kernel 5.8 First Look | Driver Readmes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NI-488.2 | ni-488.2 libni4882-devel ni-488.2-iotrace-support | 378677b | ||||||
| Automotive Diagnostic Command Set Toolkit | ni-adcs ni-adcs-labview-20xy-support libnidiagcs-devel | 378696a | ||||||
| NI-DAQmx | ni-daqmx ni-daqmx-labview-20xy-support4 | 378678a | ||||||
| NI-DCPower | ni-dcpower ni-dcpower-daqmx ni-dcpower-labview-20xy-support | 378679b | ||||||
| NI-DMM | ni-dmm ni-dmm-daqmx ni-dmm-labview-20xy-support4 | 378680a | ||||||
| ECU Measurement and Calibration Toolkit | ni-ecumc ni-ecumc-labview-20xy-support libniemcc-devel | 378694a | ||||||
| NI-FlexRIO | ni-flexrio ni-flexrio-795x ni-flexrio-796x ni-flexrio-797x | 378681b | ||||||
| Hardware Configuration Utility | ni-hwcfg-utility | 378698a | ||||||
| NI PXI Platform Services | ni-pxiplatformservices ni-pxiplatformservices-labview-20xy-support ni-pxiplatformservices-devel | 378682b | ||||||
| NI-RIO5 | ni-fpga-interface ni-rio-mxie | 378684a | ||||||
| NI R Series | ni-rseries | 378683a | ||||||
| NI-RFSA | ni-rfsa ni-rfsa-daqmx ni-rfsa-labview-20xy-support4 | n/a | n/a | 378692a | ||||
| NI-RFSG | ni-rfsg ni-rfsg-daqmx ni-rfsg-labview-20xy-support4 | n/a | n/a | 378693a | ||||
| NI-SCOPE | ni-scope ni-scope-daqmx ni-scope-labview-20xy-support4 | 378685a | ||||||
| NI-Serial | ni-serial | 378686b | ||||||
| NI-SWITCH | ni-switch ni-switch-daqmx ni-switch-daqmx-config ni-switch-labview-20xy-support4 ni-switch-labview-20xy-examples4 | 378687a | ||||||
| NI-Sync | ni-sync libnisync1-devel ni-sync-labview-20xy-support4 | 378688a | ||||||
| NI System Configuration | ni-syscfg-runtime ni-syscfg-labview-20xy-support ni-iotrace | 378689b | ||||||
| NI USRP-RIO | ni-usrp-rio | Driver Info | ||||||
| NI-VISA | ni-visa ni-visa-labview-20xy-support | 378691b | ||||||
| NI-XNET | ni-xnet ni-xnet-labview-20xy-support | 374803c | ||||||
| 1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2 OpenSUSE Leap 3 Ubuntu LTS 4 LabVIEW support is not available on Ubuntu distributions for current versions of NI-Sync, NI SWITCH, NI-SCOPE, NI-RFSG, NI-RFSA, NI-DMM, and NI-DAQmx 5 Enables connections via the FPGA Interface API to remote RIO devices such as CompactRIO, Single-Board RIO, and Ethernet RIO | ||||||||
For additional information about supported operating systems, refer to the NI Operating System Support Roadmap.
Visit ni.com/security to view and subscribe to receive security notifications about NI products. For information about critical updates from NI, refer to Available Critical and Security Updates for NI Software.
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