Waveforms packet installation without VIPM

[Someone]

I installed Labview 2021 on my Linux box and it worked. Then I wanted to install the Waveforms packet for it. Documentation states that VIPM is needed to download and install it. VIPM on Linux is only available in a 2017 version which needs a lot of old libraries to be installed alongside. After installation of VIPM I wanted to install the Waveforms packet with it but failed because Labview didn't start anymore. So before attempting a reinstallation: Is there a way to install the Waveforms packet without VIPM?

[attila]

Hi @Someone

Officially the VIs are only supported under Windows but I've also used it under Linux and MacOS.
The vip package is basically a zip archive. This can be extracted and installed/copied manually.

[Someone]

If I only copy the files to their destinations stated in the spec file, LabVIEW segfaults due to a nullpointer deref when using any of the Digilent VIs. There's a postinstall VI in the package, but this wants to use the registry functions, which are only available under Windows.

What I have seen so far LabVIEW is best supported and works best on Windows and with its current issues I will not try and use it under Linux anymore.

But thanks for helping.