Much appreciate the help. The given command is for a debian based system and it seems there is no equivalent for the Fedora system I'm currently testing on. Fortunately I have a Ubuntu VM installation which I created earlier today. I switch to Fedora (Red Hat environment) because this the environment which is directly supported by NI installers.
Running the command produces the following output.
manya@ubuntuLV17:~$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package ia32-libs is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
lib32ncurses5 lib32z1
E: Package 'ia32-libs' has no installation candidate
I'm currently on Ubuntu 17.10 so perhaps this version is too new and therefor the package has been made obsolete as the output also mentioned.
Since it references 2 other package I installed those.
sudo apt-get install lib32ncurses5
sudo apt-get install lib32z1
When launching vipm I now have a different error message:
manya@ubuntuLV17:~$ sudo /usr/local/JKI/VIPM/vipm
/usr/local/JKI/VIPM/vipm: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
So it seems some other lib is still missing that needs to be installed:
sudo apt-get install lib32stdc++6
Launching vipm once again produces the error below:
manya@ubuntuLV17:~$ sudo /usr/local/JKI/VIPM/vipm
Can't find library liblvrt.so.15.0
Make sure this library is installed in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH
search path, or in /usr/lib
To download the LabVIEW Runtime engine, go to http://www.ni.com/rteFinder?dest=lvrte&version=15.0&platform=Linux&lang=en
Searching for liblvrt.so.15.0 shows the file is found in two locations (for my system):
/usr/local/lib64/liblvrt.so.15.0
/usr/local/lib64/LabVIEW-2015-64/liblvrt.so.15.0.1
Just by looking at the path it shows that this is a 64bit lib but vipm requires the 32bit version. As a "quick fix" I tried copying the libs to the expect location /usr/lib but as expected this doesn't work:
manya@ubuntuLV17:/etc/ld.so.conf.d$ sudo cp /usr/local/lib64/liblvrt.so.15.0 /usr/lib
manya@ubuntuLV17:/etc/ld.so.conf.d$ sudo /usr/local/JKI/VIPM/vipm
Can't load library /usr/lib/liblvrt.so.15.0
/usr/lib/liblvrt.so.15.0: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
To download the LabVIEW Runtime engine, go to http://www.ni.com/rteFinder?dest=lvrte&version=15.0&platform=Linux&lang=en
At this point I can only assume the easiest way forward is to create a 32bit Linux installation and retry the installation.
Or do you, @Jim Kring, have any other options to try out.