NI in WinGet (Windows Package Manager)

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When it will be possible to install NI Package Manager (or other NI SW) with WinGet (Windows Package Manager)?

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Anyone?

It would be really convenient to have a script for a clean Windows OS which install all I need. I understand, that could be achieved with winget and nipkg?

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Hi Michał,

Currently, we do not have imminent plans to make NIPM available via winget, however, this is something that we have discussed internally and are interested in.

I would be interested in learning more about a script like you mentioned for a clean OS install. What other things would you add to this script? Could you script the installation of the NIPM installer (https://www.ni.com/en-us/support/downloads/software-products/download.package-manager.html#322516) as part of this script?

Thanks.

 - Aaron Peña

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Yeah, the idea is to run a script with winget to install kind of a baseline on a machine. It would install utilities like notepad++ or 7-zip plus, of course, NIPM to install the most important part like e.g. TestStand or DAQmx (using CLI).

Script will install the latest utilities and NIPM, and e.g. particular version of TestStand (nipkg install "ni-teststand-2020-x86 20.0.0.49158-0+f6" I don't know if specifying version will work but it would be nice) using NIPM CLI.

This way instead of maintaining installers I could download all the necessary SW (in apropriate version) and have better configuration management. And of course environment automation.

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Another use case would be a "magic USB stick" 😁 with simple script for installing new machine baseline for colleagues responsible for machine assembly.

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Hi Aaron,

Do you know if NI's still looking at this?  NIPM through Winget might be a "first class" compliment to a gRPC server on Windows.

Thanks,

Steve K

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https://forums.ni.com/t5/NI-Package-Management-Idea/Simplify-NI-software-install-by-using-winget/idi...

C'mon people, one day and it is done: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/

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Thank you 🙂

winget search --id=NI.ni-packagemanager --versions
Found NI Package Manager [NI.ni-packagemanager]
Version
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24.3.0
24.0.0
23.8.0