download LV 2017 without NI downloader

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I do all downloads of NI packages from a Linux box (don't ask), where I don't think the downloader.exe is going to be functional.

Can't find a direct download link to LabVIEW 2017, like most older stuff has. Is this the way going forward?

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It is in http://download.ni.com/, if one digs deep enough.

[ZKami]

Hello,

I'm having a little trouble understanding your post. Were you able to find everything you needed? If not, what exactly are you looking for? As an FYI, LabVIEW for Linux requires physical media. 

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I'm having a little trouble understanding your post. Were you able to find everything you needed? If not, what exactly are you looking for?

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From a Linux desktop, go to ni.com and download LV2017 for Windows.  All links I can find use ni downloader.exe, which doesn't run on Linux, instead of offering a direct link to the .exe/.zip/.whatever, that I can download from Linux.

[ZKami]

Unfortunately, we don't have anything other that the .exe available for download on the website. If you would like to discuss other options, please contact your seller. 

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Unfortunately, we don't have anything other that the .exe available for download on the website.

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That is new with LV2017, all previous versions of LV have direct links. Most other related packages, like NI-488, Ni-VSA, NI-DAQmx, still offer direct downloads. Not sure what I gain with the change besides NI forcing me to use yet another downloader, on a Windows box.

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If you would like to discuss other options, please contact your seller. 

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My seller is you/NI.  I manage a VLM several LV licenses.

[Hooovahh]

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instrumento wrote: 

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If you would like to discuss other options, please contact your seller. 

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My seller is you/NI.  I manage a VLM several LV licenses. 

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I'm sure he meant contact your NI sales rep for your area and they can probably get you what you need.

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I'm sure he meant contact your NI sales rep for your area and they can probably get you what you need.

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I sincerely doubt my local sales rep (which I haven't talked to in ages, as we request quotes from NI's website and send POs to NI in Texas) can send me a link to the website which doesn't seem to exist

And no, I don't want a CD/DVD,  I get those for the VIsion dev module,  (from Ireland! probably so NI can get some tax break), immediately dispose of them, and eventually go to ni.com when I'm ready to jump revisions.

All those direct links have been available on the NI website, along with downloader wrapped version, for a long time.  Not sure what's so different with LV2017.

Anyway, I started the download on a windows box (see below), tcpdump'ing the packets, killed the downloader, went directly to the built-in link, which wasn't even protected with a login, and downloaded the file.

When I'm doing this remotely (i.e. not at work, and I do this mostly remotely), all the Windows boxes I can access don't have internet access, thus the need to go through a Linux box in my office.  My Windows laptop is at the remote location, and I'm not about to download several hundred if not a couple of giga bytefiles to my laptop and then transfer them to some work machine.

[Hooovahh]

You sound frustrated and I get that.  You had a set of steps that used to work and now doesn't for apparently no reason.  But you won't know the download isn't available unless you ask, and if it did for some reason exist but NI didn't want to share it publicly (so instead people are forced to use the downloader to track analytics) then they also wouldn't want to post it here in the forums.  Glad you got a working solution, sorry you had to jump through unnecessary hoops when a direct link is clearly the most straight forward way.