09-30-2025 04:18 AM
Hi y'all,
hope, someone can help / point me to the obvious, I have missed 😉
Use-Case is updating NIPM on offline machines
What I did:
1.) Download the NIPM feed on an online machine
.\nipkg.exe feed-download ni-package-manager-released C:\Temp\NIInstall\NIPM
2.) Copy the folder to an accessible network drive
3.) On the offline machine create and add offline NIPM feed
.\nipkg.exe feed-create C:\Temp\NIInstall\nipp-local <path to network>
.\nipkg.exe feed-add C:\Temp\NIInstall\nipp-local
Opening the GUI, everything looks clean and I am notified, that there is a new version of NIPM available.
Question
What CLI commands do I have to execute to start the NIPM upgrade? The straight-forward way gives me an error:
C:\Program Files\National Instruments\NI Package Manager> .\nipkg.exe upgrade ni-package-manager
ni-package-manager is not installed or is not upgradable. No operation will be performed.
From the GUI, upgrade is no problem. So..... anyone can tell me, what the trick is?
Solved! Go to Solution.
09-30-2025 08:25 AM
Found it.... after causing Nigel to faint 😉
NI PackageManager is a locked package:
.\nipkg.exe install --install-also-upgrades --force-locked ni-package-manager -y --accept-eulas