In the Houdini colorbar HDA under "color options", set the menus like this...
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png file
/svs/share/houdini/cbars/images/png/yellow_gray_green.png
tex file
/svs/share/houdini/cbars/images/tex/yellow_gray_green.tex
definition
/svs/share/houdini/cbars/definitions/svs/yellow_gray_green.csv
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