uhd_images_downloader(1)

💖 uhd_images_downloader — the manual page, bestie edition 💖

okay so. this is uhd_images_downloader(1), a User Commands situation, and it lives in the UHD section. it's literally the USRP Hardware Driver firmware/FPGA downloader and we are going to read it together, no skipping. 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

uhd_images_downloader — USRP Hardware Driver firmware/FPGA downloader

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so the UHD package is the universal hardware driver for Ettus Research products. the whole point of UHD is to hand you a host driver and API for current and future Ettus Research products. you can run the UHD driver standalone or with 3rd party applications, your call, both are valid. 👑

and this program? it installs the firmware and FPGA binaries from Ettus Research that match this UHD driver release onto the host system. that's its whole job. it's giving personal shopper but for binaries.

real talk though: if the uhd-images package is already installed, there is no need to run this installer. save yourself the effort, bestie, you're already fed. 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

uhd_images_downloader Usage: uhd_images_downloader [options]

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

okay the iconique part: this program works best without any arguments. literally no cap, just run it. 🙈

• -h, --help — show this help message and exit. the classic. the moment.
• --download-location=DOWNLOAD_LOCATION — set a custom download location for images, [default=/usr/share/uhd/images]
• --buffer-size=BUFFER_SIZE — set the download buffer size, [default=8192]

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

UHD documentation: http://files.ettus.com/manual/

GR-UHD documentation: http://gnuradio.org/doc/doxygen/page_uhd.html

Other UHD programs (the friend group):

• usrp2_card_burner(1)
• usrp_n2xx_simple_net_burner(1)
• usrp_x3xx_fpga_burner(1)
• octoclock_firmware_burner(1)

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

This manual page was written by Maitland Bottoms and Nicholas Corgan for the Debian project (but may be used by others). shoutout to them fr fr, they ate. 🔥

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⭐ COPYRIGHT ⭐

Copyright (c) 2012-2022 Ettus Research, A National Instruments Brand

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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⚠️ bestie that ALL CAPS part is not me being dramatic for the plot, that is a real warranty disclaimer and you should read it with your whole chest. no warranty, periodt. 💀

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and that's the whole page!! 🌸 this one came from UHD version 3.7.0, filed under uhd_images_downloader(1). mwah, go download your images, ily, bye. 🧚💖