Error during LabVIEW 2026 Q1 online installation

[st2kshinted]

Today I tried to perform online Labview installation. My PC environment is as follows.
OS : Windows 11 Professional Japanese
Labview : 2026 Q1 64bit English

I downloaded the online installer "ni-labview-2026_26.0_suite_online.exe" and executed it, However, I got an error message attached to this post. Sorry it is in Japanese, but it essentially says,
"A package compatible with the version and PC architecture (>= 26.1.2.49158-0+f6) was not found."

After struggling in trying online installation on multiple PCs for several hours with no avail, I downloaded the offline installer "ni-labview-2026_26.0.0.49220-0+f68_offline.iso". I mounted it and launched the installer, which went through without any issue.

From this experience, I suspect there may be some king of problem in NI's Labview package repository, causing errors during the online installation. The offline installation works, but I needed to download a huge file of approximately 33 GB.

Has anyone had a similar experience, or is this trouble specific to my environment?
Also, if anyone has found any workaround for this problem, please share it with others.

[billko]

For that reason, I try to do the offline install if it is available. I hate online installs because every layer is a point of failure.

[Bob_Schor]

Sigh.  One of the most "challenging" aspects of LabVIEW is "Installation".  Since LabVIEW 2016 (I believe, but might be off by a year or two), NIPM has been the LabVIEW "installer" and the source of exactly the problem you have described (even in the "English-language" version, to say nothing of versions with more "interesting" language settings).

What sometimes works if you are getting failures "mid-install" is to try installing as little as possible, and install in several "passes".  Here is one scenario:

• On the first NIPM page, install only LabVIEW and VIPM as "programs".  Install DAQmx and VISA as Drivers.
• On the "Additional" page, clear all entries and then install the minimum support routines (for DAQmx and VISA).

This "gets you started" and stands a pretty good chance of succeeding without getting "its wires crossed" (which is a bad pun in English, given that "wires" are a "thing" in LabVIEW and a different "thing" in the Real World).

If that works, do it again, adding other top-level additions (Real-Time, Vision, other Drivers, and the minimum needed "Additionals").  If successful, great!  If another failure, note which package crashes, then come back and tell us, translating from the Japanese for us.

For my colleagues and students, I always volunteer to install LabVIEW for them.

Bob Schor

[st2kshinted]

Today, my colleague tried the online LabVIEW installation, and it completed successfully. It seems that NI has silently fixed the problem in the package repository.