NI-RIO on Ubuntu

[jpaparone]

Hi fellas !

I'm looking for a way to install the NI RIO 17.0 drivers on a Linux Ubuntu 19.04 desktop environment.

When running the INSTALL script from the ISO, I get this error :

Warning: glibc was not found in the rpm database, but
         it appears to be installed on your system.
         This most likely means you are not using a RPM based
         Linux distribution, and need to manually populate your
         RPM database, or install with the --nodeps option.

and the install stops. Which is weird, because glibc IS installed, both in the rpm database (using alien and the last version of a glibc rpm file)  and with apt.

At this point I decide to try and install with the --nodeps option. The libs are found, I get the Terms of Agreement displayed and all. This is when I get this error : 

************************************ ERROR *************************************
 It appears that a x86 version of libstdc++* is not installed.
 Please install a x86 version of libstdc++* before installing NI-RIO.

 Try 'yum search libstdc++*' to see available versions. Refer to your
 distributions documentation for more information.
************************************ ERROR *************************************

Which is also not the case. I'm quite out of options here.

Any suggestion welcome !

[Michael_Strain]

Unfortunately, we do not yet support Ubuntu.  Currently we support Red Hat, Centos, SUSE.  Its very possible a future release will support Ubuntu, but for now we recommend using a supported Linux distribution. 

You can find more information on our current linux support here: https://www.ni.com/docs/en-US/bundle/ni-platform-on-linux-desktop/page/installing-ni-drivers-and-sof... and you can find the latest linux device drivers here: https://www.ni.com/en/support/downloads/drivers/download.ni-linux-device-drivers.html