Unable to find download links for Run-Time Engine patches

[BruceMoyer]

I'm trying to find the Run-Time engine patch for LabVIEW 2017 SP1 f4 and can't find a way to download it using the new download page.  

https://www.ni.com/en-us/support/downloads/software-products/download.labview.html#310831

Any ideas as to how to find it?  I can't seem to be able to download run-time engine patches for any versions (and I know they exist because I have them).

Thanks,

Bruce

[Gregory]

You can get it through NI Package Manager

[BruceMoyer]

NI Package Manager requires Admin privileges so I can't (easily) run that on my system.  I have to get the installer approved by my IT in order to self install it, so that is why I need to be able to get the installer by normal means.  Why are the other installers available through ni.com and not the RTEs?  Are they soon going to take the other installers down too?  😉

Thanks,

Bruce

[crossrulz]

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@BruceMoyer wrote:

NI Package Manager requires Admin privileges so I can't (easily) run that on my system.  I have to get the installer approved by my IT in order to self install it, so that is why I need to be able to get the installer by normal means.

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I am also not fond of everything being pushed via NIPM.  I have managed to find a flaming hoop I can jump through to get it to work, but many corporate IT departments, especially those in the defense industry, do not like the idea of all installs going through a package manager and an online installer.  And then I have my test systems which are not part of any network (avoid IT interference as much as possible).  We need everything to be available through a downloadable installer.

[Gregory]

Have you tried downloading the LabVIEW 2017 SP1 RTE (without the f4)? Do patches apply to the RTE? 

[BruceMoyer]

The link to download LabVIEW installers doesn't even let you download RTE installers.  It seems that the patches also apply to RTEs (on my development computer that I am able to elevate privileges I was able to use NIPM to update it, but that doesn't solve my issue for computers that are locked down).

[cbutcher]

This is a bit of an undesirable workaround (and may fail spectacularly if it requires admin privileges, which it may) but you could try creating an EXE, then an installer, for some trivial program and then including the runtime in that installer?

[BruceMoyer]

Thanks, I thought about doing this, creating a "dummy" installer that installs the patch, but instead I found the "installer" in the NIPM cache ("NI LabVIEW Runtime 2017 SP1 f4 (64-bit) [17.64.49153]") and requested approval to install it using the .msi file since there isn't a typical installer program (setup.exe). 

I checked MAX and it now has the correct RTE patch. 

Doing all of this seems a bit hokey, so I'm hoping this isn't the new norm.

Bruce

[Gregory · Accepted solution]

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@BruceMoyer wrote:

The link to download LabVIEW installers doesn't even let you download RTE installers. 

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Yes it does. And it looks like it downloaded the latest patched version for me because the file is called "LVRTE2017SP1_f4Patchstd.zip"

[crossrulz]

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@Gregory wrote:

Yes it does. And it looks like it downloaded the latest patched version for me because the file is called "LVRTE2017SP1_f4Patchstd.zip"

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Ah, instead of looking at the patch we should be looking at the actual version.  Not sure how I feel about that.  Seems confusing.

But in my looking at this again, I just noticed that 2019 SP1 is available for download!