Hi, Is it possible to install a second version using the .exe installer ?
Reason is that I have 5.4.2 running and after 4 months of Proxy issues i can finally connect to my local LLM, however when the IT department added 5.5 using the Full program zip I am unable to install python based extension. Being able try installation using the .exe for 5.5 might help but I am loath to lose a working Knime AP
Thanks
@mgirdwood KNIME can just live in a local folder where you have writing access to. You can have several installations in parallel given that if they are open at the same time they have different knime-workspaces. And if you run different versions be advised that newer versions of KNIME can open older stored workflows (waayyyy back). But older KNIME versions will not be able to open newer KNIME workflows.
So you could copy, zip or rename your old KNIME version and re-use that.
@mlauber71 - Thanks Markus, my only option on the Works PC would be if I can rename the Knime folder where it is already installed ie c - program files - knime_old and then have the IT department install the newer version to the same base program files area. But as its windows during the installation process Knime needs to uninstall the old version first. We tried the zipped full version on a different part of the drive but that didnt work.
In my case, I let the main one in C:\Program File\ and download the Zip of any other version and extract to C:\Users\My User\Program\ (I create Program directory where I extract the my other KNIME. You will not need Admin privilege)
In my home (personal computer) I have multiple directory so I keep like this:
How about just zipping the existing folder and extracting it to another place?
Unfortunately only can be done by the IT teams and they are not happy at the moment re the extensions, so I dont want to push my luck with the working 5.4.2 as they have determined the 5.5 install we did needs to be deleted.
But thanks for the suggestions, looks like it will be personal PC Knime only and goodbye to using it at work until Knime includes more of the key nodes ie AI and Python directly in the Core build
@mgirdwood you have tried the extensions as local ZIP files I assume?
Also before KNIM E5.4 there were some issues with the local installation of specifically LLM extensions. I hope they are now fixed.
Yes I was using the offline extensions and for 5.4.2 this worked, but now my IT team has noted this as Non Core meaning for every extension I would need to raise a Service Ticket which is totally unworkable given how many of the extensions are needed to run workflows including python based workflows AI etc which are the key areas that the business is now looking at.
Company policies can be stressful, I know. Is it possible to boil that down to the three big packages and just provide them for the users at a central (or local) place and maybe place the folders / zip file paths to the KNIME installation so as to let the users install from a place that is not the internet.
Or can you curate a zip file that would contain all necessary extensions and then the IT would install that instead of the basic version from KNIME.
Again a good suggestion - Thanks, I think the only way may be to download all the individual extensions and Zip them up as you said, and then ask for those to be installed on top of the Base core build. Finding them all will be a pain of course.
Concerning AI there should not be that many.
What you can do is also to open some workflows that would use a lot of extensions and then letzt KNIME install them. I can offer three repositories that I think will cover a lot (mlauber71/Examples – KNIME Community Hub,
mlauber71/LLM_Space – KNIME Community Hub,
mlauber71/Machine_Learning – KNIME Community Hub)
Thanks Markus,
I will look through them and see what I might need.
Appreciated .
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