LabVIEW 8.6 with Ubuntu 9.10 - installation troubles

[Hillman]

Hi everyone,

I am a new user of Linux LabVIEW - but I am now working on a project which involves it. (I have experience of LabVIEW windows mind you).

 Before we start, I am aware the ubuntu is not a supported distribution - but I only require the software and TCP/IP. 

I have ubuntu 9.10 and a disk with a linux labview iso.

My steps 

# All down under root (sudo -s, password -->root) 

1.  Create new directory and copy iso files (rpms) to hard disk. 

2. Convert rpm to deb using sudo alien -k

3. Install deb using sudo dpkg -i

During this step I get file path errors, sometimes permission issues.

One I did this, and I managed to open LabVIEW and run a simple vi. But found that the NI Examples and NI Help were not linked properly. Foolishly, I tried to fix it and then decided to uninstall it all.  It also didnt under when typing ./labview in the terminal nor did linux recognize the .vi format. I had to find .exe to start labview up. 

Does anyone have any advice on how I can get this to work?

Does the order matter on installing the debs?  

Has anyone tried the install file? I have read that this worked for some .. is that possible? being rpm and debs. 

[Hillman]

Hi all,

I tried again and managed it!

1 - mkdir ~/labview
2 - cd ~/labview
3 - cp LABVIEW_INSTALL_MEDIA_MOUNT_POINT/*.rpm
4 - for each of the RPMs run the following command:

rpm2cpio RPM_FILE | cpio -idv

The above command complete unpacks the RPM, after all the RPMs are processed there will be an ~/labview/usr/local/ folder containing all LabVIEW's files.

6 - sudo mv usr/local/* /usr/local/

7 - Just create a launcher that points to /usr/local/natinst/LabVIEW-8.5/labview 

However, the example finder and help are not lined. How can I fix these?

Secondly, I still want to know from NI why the Debian install script errored with 1022 permission denied.