error when building Installer with USI 1.5.0 with Labview 8.5

[reza_sed]

I used to build an installer with Labview 8.2 and included this additional installer USI 1.5.0  but now with labview 8.5 it gives me an error:

"Locate the "NI LabVIEW" distribution. LabVIEW needs to copy a component installed or updated by the distribuiton to conitnue building the installer"

Any advice

[weschi]

Hello,

I have the same problem. Also LabVIEW shows me an error-message by starting. It wants to have an installer-file *.msi. But I can not find it on the installation package.

Who can help?

[Donovan_B]

Hi reza_sed,

Thank you for contacting National Instruments.  When you get this message, are you prompted for a location of this installer (CD drive or something)?  Sometimes if components are installed together, certain dependencies are created.  You might be able to add the installer to a LabVIEW 8.2 installer with no problem, but the installer cannot be found when using a different version of LabVIEW.  You might try uninstalling USI, then copying the install files from the CD or from our website to your hard drive and then installing from there.  Then, you should be able to include the additional installer.

Another thing that may be happening is that the LabVIEW Run-Time Engine you have for 8.5 does not support NI-USI.  The full version of the Run-Time Engine supports NI-USI, but the web browser only version does not.  Make sure you select the full version when installing.

[reza_sed]

Hi Donavan,

I believe I have the full version installed, but how can I check to be sure?

This was an installer I had built earlier with Labview 8.2 that would not work unless I included that additional installer USI, however using the Labview 8.5 runtime engine I removed the additional installer (since it was giving me that error message and yes it was prompting me for a location) but the application and my program started working again.  I don't know if this additional is already included in the Labview 8.5 Runtime engine and not the 8.2 or I removed the function that needed the installer in my application.  I will run a few more tests to be sure that i don't need the additional installer and maybe investigate why i needed it the first time when creating an installer for Labview 8.2.  As for now my application is running smoothly

Again the error message was:

"Locate the "NI LabVIEW" distribution. LabVIEW needs to copy a component installed or updated by the distribuiton to conitnue building the installer" and it was looking iin the dvd drive

thanks

Reza

[Donovan_B]

It looks like the dependency was created with LabVIEW 8.2 and your application did not really require USI 1.5.0 originally, but because of the way things were installed, it was necessary to include it in the installer.  When installing LabVIEW 8.5, this dependency was not created because USI was already on your machine.  Looks like you do not need to include USI and everything should work fine for you.