National Instruments 370551A-01 用户手册

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This chapter describes how to install and uninstall the NI-VXI/NI-VISA 
software for Linux.

Before you begin, you may need to install Linux on your computer. Refer 
to the Linux documentation for instructions. After your computer is booted 
into Linux, you are ready to install the NI-VXI/NI-VISA software.

To install NI-VXI/NI-VISA for the PCI-MXI-2 for Linux, perform the 
following steps: 

1.

Insert the NI-VXI/NI-VISA for Linux CD.

2.

Login to your system as 

root

.

3.

Mount the CD-ROM.

4.

To change the current directory to the mounted CD-ROM, type the 
following command:

cd/mnt/cdrom

 

5.

To run the installation script, type the following command:

./INSTALL

 

The 

INSTALL

 places NI-VXI and NI-VISA in their default locations. 

The script uses 

rpm

 to install the packages on systems that support it or 

extracts the files directly on other systems. The script also optionally 
installs support for NI-VXI in LabVIEW.

You also can install the RPM files without going through the 

INSTALL

 

script by using 

rpm

, 

glint

, or

gnorpm

 on RedHat or other RPM-based 

systems. For example, to install NI-VXI in 

/opt

 on a RedHat 5.x system, 

type the following command:

rpm --prefix=/opt/nivxi

 -Uvh nivxi-pcimxi-1.6-1.i386.rpm