Installer Select Source Dialog - looking for other installers of mine

[michael.lambert]

I understand that when you are trying to build an installer, LabVIEW will prompt for you to point to additional installer media if it can't be found. However, I can't find any help for why it might be looking for other installers that I've built! I've attached a screenshot.

It's asking me to provide installers for other applications that I've written that have nothing to do with this project! There is nothing from either of those listed in the dependencies. Why is it wanting the NI System Components from those?!

[Gevor]

The answer might be laying in below link.

https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/NI-System-Components/td-p/2619281

[michael.lambert · Accepted solution]

The theory in that link is certainly helpful to understand. However, I ended up having to completely refresh the install of LabVIEW to get rid of the issue. Not fun, but at least it fixed it.

[ParataCorey]

I'm also having this problem.  Can you give some more details on how you fixed this?  What do you mean "completely refresh the install of LabVIEW"?

[michael.lambert]

Well depending on the version of LabVIEW you have, there's different ways of going about it. I think I was using 2017, so NI Package Manager was installed. I used NIPM to uninstall every single thing I could and installed from scratch... If you're using older versions, you'd probably go through control panel >> add/remove programs instead.

Moving forward, I just try to avoid running custom installers on any PC I plan to develop on to prevent this from happening.

[ParataCorey · Accepted solution]

Holy cow that's some "work around."  I hope someone at NI is following this.

I did figure out another solution.  I searched my registry for the missing installer and found a reference to it in Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\National Instruments\Common\Installer\Distributions

I deleted all the distribution keys associated with that installer, and tried rebuilding.  I got prompted again for the missing "NI System Components", but this time, 'select source' was asking for "NI mx LabVIEW Control Installer."  I googled this and found this: https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA00Z000000g0l1SAA&l=en-US

I deleted the directory C:\ProgramData\National Instruments\NI-DAQmx (had to stop all NI services to do this), then repaired DAQmx (none of the other recommended packages), rebooted, tried rebuilding again, and presto boomo it worked.

Hopefully this helps anyone else out there struggling with this problem.

[StevenD]

I'm having this same issue. I have a project with an exe (that builds fine) and an installer that asks for the media for some other installers I have built in the past. One of these I haven't used in about 10 years and probably built two dozen other installers since without ever seeing this issue. 

I have combed through my project and can't find any link between my current project and these older ones. I've looked at tree hierarchy and checked the dependencies in the current project and there is no reference to the older projects. 

It seems to be a problem with this specific machine as I can build from my laptop without issue. I checked the registry entries highlighted by ParataCorey and deleted anything relevant to the older projects, but still have the same issue.

I have checked the dependencies in the installer, tried manually selecting installers to no avail. It seems like the installer will get mostly done and then prompt for these old project installers. Again, one of them is more than 10 years old at this point and hasn't been touched in years. 

I can go down the route of uninstalling everything and reinstalling but would really like to avoid that if possible. 

Edit: Adding screenshot of dialog