Help installing Labview Comunity Edition

[RochelleS]

I thought I downloaded an ISO image so I don't understand why it needs an internet connection. But I keep getting this error and I know my internet connection is working!

There was a problem executing your request

An error installing a package: ni-vipm (20.0.0.49152-0+f0)

Please check your internet connection and try again

[billko]

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@RochelleS wrote:

I thought I downloaded an ISO image so I don't understand why it needs an internet connection. But I keep getting this error and I know my internet connection is working!

There was a problem executing your request

An error installing a package: ni-vipm (20.0.0.49152-0+f0)

Please check your internet connection and try again

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From what I can gather, that error is the default error that shows up when the installer doesn't know what the heck happened.  Perhaps it was a bad download that ended with a corrupt image?

[Bob_Schor]

Congratulations -- you have found the "generic" Error in NIPM when "something goes wrong" and there is no specific Error Message that would provide help.

Installing LabVIEW has become significantly more complex, more difficult, and more "error-prone" (particularly "false" errors) since NIPM was introduced with LabVIEW 2017.  Some of us have worked out techniques for "safe installations", and have posted them several times in these Forums (I've done it about a half-dozen or more times).

The general Rules are to "install slowly", one major component at a time, with few "Additional Features" (or whatever that last section is called), and leaving Device Drivers for last, with reboots after each stage.

It is best to start installation using this paradigm, but you've already done a partial install.  See if you can continue, choosing just one entry from the first Installation screen, and as little as necessary from the last screen.  If you still are stuck, you may need to remove all NI Software (there is only one safe way to do this, also described numerous times on the Forum, and on the Web -- failure to do this correctly will prevent your ever being able to install LabVIEW until you first back up everything, reformat your hard drive, reinstall Windows, reinstall all other programs, and reinstall your files and documents -- I'm not kidding!).

Bob Schor

[RochelleS]

OMG this should not be this difficult!

I managed to narrow it down to VIPM was hanging everything up. So I went to JKI and  downloaded the most recent version. Big mistake because now I don't have the NI Labview Tools Network or or VIPM community repositories, only the JKI Package Network repository.

The repositories must be hard-coded in the version that is suppose to install with LabVIEW because at work it does not show any repositories in the VIPM repository manager so I can't even figure out how to add them.

JKI's forums are down adding insult to injury...

[GerdW]

Hi Rochelle,

JKI and VIPM has nothing to do with installing LabVIEW: you should use the ISO, which should install NIPM as first step…