Can't install VIPM 2019

[immercd1]

Hello,

I have a system with LabVIEW 2015, 2016 installed.  I am trying to install 2019, however, when I try to install VIPM 2019, I get the attached message.  ("The older version of VI Package Manager 2019 cannot be removed."

I've also tried uninstalling from the windows uninstaller and get the 2nd attached message.

I don't have 'vipm-setup.msi' for 2016. 

Any ideas how to resolve?

I've also posted this in JKI's forums:

https://forums.jki.net/topic/3206-the-older-version-of-vipm-cannot-be-removed/

[Bob_Schor]

It is unclear (to me) what version(s) of LabVIEW you currently have installed, and what version(s) of LabVIEW you utlimately want to have installed.

When NIPM was introduced, installing and uninstalling LabVIEW versions had some "growing pains" as NIPM, itself, was refined and patched.  However, there are still issues with doing successful installations on systems with multiple versions of LabVIEW.

Over the past year, I have installed and re-installed multiple LabVIEW Versions (typically LabVIEW 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019) at least a dozen times on several PCs.  Here are some "Lessons I have Learned":

1. It is far easier, faster, and much safer to start "with a clean slate" by removing all NI Software before doing any "re-installation" of anything.
2. Doing a "Repair" of a Module/Driver (in defiance of the previous Lesson) can sometimes succeed, but the odds are (in my experience at least 10:1) that you will only fail, and have to resort to Lesson 1.
3. Do not use Registry tools (or manual Registry "tweaks") to remove NI Software.  Doing so (in my several-fold experience) leads to reformatting the C: drive and reinstalling Windows.
4. You can find (on the Web or in this Forum) procedures to carry out Step 1 (I posted one months ago on the Forum).
5. Install LabVIEW "slowly".  Do LabVIEW (without Modules/Toolkits/Drivers) first, accept only the Additional Features you know you need.  Reboot, then add Modules/Toolkits, again one at a time.  Do Drivers last (don't worry if NIPM installs some Drivers "without permission").
6. Paradoxically, if installing multiple versions of LabVIEW, installing them "most-recent-first" (a complete reversal of the procedure before NIPM) is often best.
7. I have recently done an installation where VIPM failed to install.  I repeated the Installation without VIPM, and when LabVIEW was built, got a VIPM installer from JKI.  That worked.
8. NIPM 2019 seems to be improving as later versions are released and patched.  Possibly LabVIEW 2020 will be better.

Bob Schor

1. I recently had a problem similar to yours -- my installation of LabVIEW 2019 worked except for VIPM.