uhd_images_downloader(1)

uhd_images_downloader1

Usrp hardware driver firmware/fpga downloader

Usage

uhd_images_downloader Usage: uhd_images_downloader [options]

Overview

The UHD package is the universal hardware driver for Ettus Research products. The goal of the UHD is to provide a host driver and API for current and future Ettus Research products. Users will be able to use the UHD driver standalone or with 3rd party applications.

This program installs the firmware and FPGA binaries from Ettus Research matching this UHD driver release onto the host system. If the uhd-images package is installed, there is no need to run this installer.

Options

This program works best without any arguments.

-h, --help show this help message and exit

--download-location=DOWNLOAD_LOCATION
Set custom download location for images,
[default=/usr/share/uhd/images]

--buffer-size=BUFFER_SIZE
Set download buffer size, [default=8192]

Releases

7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 8
  2. 9–11
  3. 12–Arch

Author

This manual page was written by Maitland Bottoms and Nicholas Corgan for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

From libuhd 4.9.0.1-8 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.