Installing LabVIEW with WINE (?)

[jjrev]

So my primary computer runs Ubuntu64 Linux (8.04).  I purchased a LabVIEW Developer Suite (8.5.1) for Windows as the programs I will build will be for Windows primarily.  I don't plan on interacting with external hardware in any of my VI's, only parsing data files and displaying graphs and other such things. 

I'm trying to install this Windows version of LabVIEW under WINE (1.0-rc2) and I'm receiving this error message: "You have a different language edition of LabVIEW 8.5 already installed.  You must unistall that edition before you can install the English edition."  But here's the thing, I've not installed any version of LabVIEW ever on my system.

What is the deal here?

[rolfk]

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@jjrev wrote:
So my primary computer runs Ubuntu64 Linux (8.04).  I purchased a LabVIEW Developer Suite (8.5.1) for Windows as the programs I will build will be for Windows primarily.  I don't plan on interacting with external hardware in any of my VI's, only parsing data files and displaying graphs and other such things. 

I'm trying to install this Windows version of LabVIEW under WINE (1.0-rc2) and I'm receiving this error message: "You have a different language edition of LabVIEW 8.5 already installed.  You must unistall that edition before you can install the English edition."  But here's the thing, I've not installed any version of LabVIEW ever on my system.

What is the deal here?

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LabVIEW 8.x depends on so many Windows thingies like ActiveX, .Net and whatever that it will  not likely run at all or at least not very well. Also the Installer is a very complex MSI installation that is likely to push the Wine implementation of MSI beyond it's capabilities despite their great efforts in MSI support in the last one or two years.

I've tried LabVIEW 6.1 under Wine several years ago and got it working quite fine but at that time LabVIEW was a rather self contained package. Nowadays it integrates with so many things under Windows and installs many extra components to support the different editions like RT, FPGA, embedded, etc. that it is almost certainly not going to run.

I guess it would be an interesting test case for Wine and someone with a lot of free time could help Wine quite a bit in making LabVIEW install and run under it but since there is a Linux version of LabVIEW for a long time already I have never bothered to make newer LabVIEW versions install under Wine anymore.

Rolf Kalbermatter

Message Edited by rolfk on 05-30-2008 12:07 AM

[silvam2]

Know this is old post but figure it could help future users with same issue.

Make sure the Windows Installer 3.1 update is installed on system resolved error with LabVIEW 8.5.1 installer in my experience.  Easiest way to install was to run the Windows Update process.