October 2022
This file contains installation instructions and compatibility information for NI-SWITCH 2022 Q4.
You can find more release information on ni.com.
NI-SWITCH is an NI instrument driver that you can use to control and configure NI switches. NI-SWITCH is an interchangeable virtual instrument (IVI)–compliant instrument driver, and it features a set of operations and properties that exercise the functionality of the switch module and includes an interactive soft front panel and examples.
NI-SWITCH software for the Linux/x86 64-bit architecture has the following requirements:
NI-SWITCH software for the Linux/x86 64-bit architecture has been tested on the following distributions:
Note: LabVIEW is now formally supported on Ubuntu. However, LabVIEW support packages for NI-SWITCH are not currently supported on Ubuntu OS.
NI-SWITCH requires a 64-bit distribution and does not support 32-bit applications.
NI provides a repository add-on for all supported drivers that you can install using your Linux distribution's native package manager.
After the driver package(s) are installed, you must rebuild the new packages for the system kernel. NI recommends that you run the command 'dkms autoinstall' after installation, and before rebooting the system, to install the latest revision of all modules that have been installed for other kernel revisions. After doing so, the installed device drivers will function immediately on the next system start.
When installing NI-SWITCH, the "NI-SWITCH Support for LabVIEW" package will be recommended if you have already installed LabVIEW 2022 or later and installs to the LVAddons directory. This package supports applications using NI-SWITCH with LabVIEW 2022 or later.
LVAddons directory location: /usr/local/natinst/share/lvaddons
This release includes examples showing the use of NI-SWITCH in C and LabVIEW.
C examples are located in /usr/share/niswitch-devel/examples. Make files are provided that link to the necessary libraries.
The LabVIEW examples are located in the LabVIEW examples directory.
Some features discussed in the NI-SWITCH documentation are unavailable on Linux.
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