How can I get 100% free LabView 2020 community edition?

[Henry_M]

yes thank you

[billko]

You should have Community Edition Licensed, Pro and three add-ons as Eval Available.

[Baphelon]

I decided to drop in here before creating another post. I've tried this multiple times, and every time I connect my NI account and try to search for licenses it says I have no licenses, and that I need to either buy it or take a 7-day trial period. I've posted this in other places as well and they had no idea what was wrong. I've already fully uninstalled and reinstalled it multiple times, no change. I check my package manager and see that I do have the community edition, but when I check the license manager I just have a trial version of LV2020... any clues?

[RavensFan]

Many people have had problems, but no definite clue as to how to fix it.

Here are a couple threads I've seen where people finally had success.  See if any help you.

https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Labview-Community-2020-Edition-Activation/m-p/4128198#M1188961

https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/LabVIEW-community-edition-won-t-activate/m-p/4128136#M1188940

https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA03q000000ww6wCAA&l=en-US

[Baphelon]

Thanks for the reply! Those all look promising, but first things first I reinstalled it yet again, instead going to the LabVIEW download page and selecting the community edition as opposed to going to the dedicated community DL page, and got the following error message as I was trying to download it. and please note, I did not lose internet during the download: "an error occurred while installing a package: ni-vipm (20.1.0.49152-0+f0). Please check your internet connection and try again." Tried again, same error. Does this shed any light..?

[Baphelon]

A quick update: going into my network settings, deactivating IPv6, restarting my machine, and then checking for licenses again from NI License Manager worked like a charm! The common thread between the first two links you posted seems to be network issues specific to the machine they were attempting to download it from, so I believe that turning off IPv6 (at least temporarily) should be a universal solution to this problem. Thanks for the help!

[Baphelon · Accepted solution]

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@Baphelon wrote:

Thanks for the reply! Those all look promising, but first things first I reinstalled it yet again, instead going to the LabVIEW download page and selecting the community edition as opposed to going to the dedicated community DL page, and got the following error message as I was trying to download it. and please note, I did not lose internet during the download: "an error occurred while installing a package: ni-vipm (20.1.0.49152-0+f0). Please check your internet connection and try again." Tried again, same error. Does this shed any light..?

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Fixed my own issue for this one. Completely separate to my original question, if you get this error you just have to download it separately, so uncheck it in the install wizard and download it on your own.