NI Package Manager - how to select installation folder

[cugnot]

I am trying to upgrade my LabVIEW installation from version 2018 SP1 to 2019. It seems to be possible using NI Package Manager only. The installation is in user-selected folder. However, the NI Package Manager did not upgrade it but left the current installation as it is and made a new installation in another (default) folder. So I uninstalled it, tried again with an intention to choose the destination folder manually but I failed. The NI PM does not ask to choose an installation folder. I tried to download the "offline" packge but it works the same way.

How can I force the program to do an upgrade and not a new installation? How can I choose the installation folder? Or is there a standard Windows Installer version available?

I use 64-bit LabVIEW and Windows 7 Professional OS.

Thank you for a help in advance

Miroslav

[RavensFan]

Is 2019 available yet?  It is release with NI Week.  But officially that starts Monday, May 20.

Do you really want to install 64-bit LabVIEW?  Unless you have special requirements needing extra memory, the recommendation continues to be work with 32-bit LabVIEW because that has the fullest set of toolkits available to it.

[cugnot]

Thank you for the fast response.

I see. I had to reinstall the drivers due to some problems and noticed, that 2019 version is available, so I wanted upgrade LabVIEW first to ensure correct installation of the support files. OK, I will wait a bit.

As for the 64-bit version, I switched to it quite a long time ago; something went better with it that time, I do not remember exactly what. I have never needed the unavailable tools since then so I keep using it...

[Gilberto_Metzker]

I too am in this same need. In my case it's due to low space on drive "C" (drive "C" is SSD type). So, I rephrase the question - how to change the NI Package Manager installation location and also the applications installed there (I want to install DAQExpress)?

[aeastet]

Let me try to make sure I understand what you are asking since you did not provide much detail:

• You want to update to the newest LabVIEW version
• You want to remove the older version of LabVIEW (because of space limitations)
• You want to change the install location (why do you want to do this?)

Is this correct?

If so:

• Delete the older version of LabVIEW. This assumes that you were using a recent version of LabVIEW and that you are not upgrading from a really old version of LabVIEW. If this is a really old version of LabVIEW you may need to convert your software to a newer version to support the newer version of LabVIEW.
• Install the new version of LabVIEW ( I would leave the directories with the default directories)
• Open your old code with the new version of LabVIEW. If the code is not too old it should automatically recompile with the newer version of LabVIEW.
• Save your code and you are ready to go.

[billko]

If LabVIEW were a standalone application like a game or something, i would support moving it, but there will be a lot of things that could be looking for it, and maybe some of them have a hardcoded path to it.  (Like maybe poorly written programs.)

Safest to let something as complicated as LabVIEW reside in the default folder.