TestStand 2023 Q4 runtime missing only when building a package based deploy

[pboucher@werfen.com]

I'm using TestStand 2023 deploy utility.  The build works ok when creating an msi based installer but fails to find the testStand 2023 runtime when switched to a package based installer.

below is the MSI based installer. the deploy shows it found the 

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but when the package based installer is selected the teststand runtime Q4 is disabled and seems to not found

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This happens on both PC's that I have access to.

[Scott_Richardson]

This information comes from NIPM and its installed database. You can query the NIPM database of installed packages using the command "C:\Program Files\National Instruments\NI Package Manager\nipkg.exe info-installed", and you can append ">> file.txt" to pipe this to a file of your choosing to then review. In the file you should review the attributes associated with the package in question (Package: ni-teststand-2023-process-models-runtime-x86) to see if it has empty values. Curious what you find.

In the C:\ProgramData\National Instruments\NI Package Manager\packages\ directory, do you see a file like this: ni-teststand-2023*-process-models-runtime_23.*_windows_x64.nipkg?

[pboucher@werfen.com]

Thank you for the help.  looking through the log it looks like it's normal, the entry is not blank and the file it's pointing to does exist.

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[Scott_Richardson · Accepted solution]

Looking back at your original image for package deployment you should instead check the "TestStand Process Models Runtime (32-bit) [2023 Q4]" item, which is 6th in the list's subset in the image you shared.

Not sure what and why the "ni-teststand-2023 Q4-process-models-runtime-x86" item is appearing and what that is? I think you should ignore it and uncheck it.

[pboucher@werfen.com]

Interesting.  I'll have to test the installer it builds without it.

those 2 items are the result of checking the "install TestStand Runtime" option in the package distribution tab.   if I uncheck that option they go away.