[Bug]: Installing pyRevitCLI after pyRevit 5 removes the currently installed .addin files

[Dre-Tas]

✈ Pre-Flight checks

• I don't have SentinelOne antivirus installed (see above for the solution)
• I have searched in the issues (open and closed) but couldn't find a similar issue
• I have searched in the pyRevit Forum for similar issues
• I already followed the installation troubleshooting guide thoroughly
• I am using the latest pyRevit Version

🐞 Describe the bug

Hi all! Thank you so much for tackling the Revit 2025 issue so promptly. Much appreciated!

First thing I uninstallled the previous version of pyRevit that was installed on my machine (4.something). Then I downloaded the pyrevit-installers folder from what I believe is the correct link and I just went through installing the 2 exe files in the (pyRevit_5.0.0.24232_admin_signed.exe and pyRevit_CLI_5.0.0.24232_admin_signed.exe).
I’m not getting any error. Just when I open Revit 2025 I don’t get pyRevit in there.

I also tried with the non-admin installers (pyRevit_5.0.0.24232_signed.exe and pyRevit_CLI_5.0.0.24232_signed.exe) but still nothing.

In both cases, the installation seems to go through correctly till the end. No errors and/or error messages are popping up, but at the end, when I open Revit 2025 pyRevit is not there.

Is anyone else having the same issue?
Am I doing it wrong?

⌨ Error/Debug Message

the installation seems to go through correctly till the end. No errors and/or error messages are popping up, but at the end, when I open Revit 2025 pyRevit is not there.

♻️ To Reproduce

1. Double click the 2 .exe files (pyRevit_5.0.0.24232_signed.exe and pyRevit_CLI_5.0.0.24232_signed.exe or the 2 admin ones), follow the prompt until installation finishes.
2. Open Revit 2025
3. pyRevit is not there

⏲️ Expected behavior

To see pyRevit in the Revit 2025 toolbar

🖥️ Hardware and Software Setup (please complete the following information)

pyRevit is not currently installed on my machine. I uninstalled it before trying to install the new version, in order to avoid any potential conflict.

Additional context

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[sanzoghenzo]

Hi @Dre-Tas,
Why are you installing both pyrevit and the cli? the cli is already included in the regular installer.

Can you try to uninstall everything and only install pyrevit?

[Dre-Tas]

@sanzoghenzo I don't know why I installed both 😅 I saw two installers and I assumed you had to install both. I didn't really see instructions on how to install it so I just tried.

Your suggestion was good! I uninstalled everything, deleted all the folders from %appdata% and then tried installing only pyRevit_5.0.0.24232_admin_signed.exe and it worked. I opened Revit 2025 and I had pyRevit there!
I then went on with some testing/troubleshooting that might be helpful for you guys and:

• closed Revit and installed pyRevit_CLI_5.0.0.24232_admin_signed.exe and then reopened Revit, which resulted in not having pyRevit anymore;
• I then uninstalled the CLI from the control panel and opened Revit again > still no pyRevit
• I then uninstalled pyRevit 5 from the control panel and deleted all folders from %appdata% and reinstalled just pyRevit 5, opened Revit and it was there.

Not sure if/how this is helpful, but there you go ;)

[sanzoghenzo]

Thanks @Dre-Tas for your thorough investigation!

I will reopen this because there's something wrong in the pyrevit CLI installer, so it makes sense to keep track of it.

[sanzoghenzo]

I checked the PyRevitCLI installers, and this is by design: after the installation the following commands are run:

pyrevit caches clear --all
pyrevit detach --all

This is because the CLI installer is meant to be used to manually setup your pyrevit installation, so it makes sure you're starting from a clean slate.

I would leave it as it is, but maybe we can document better what the different installers are for.
A page on the notion site and a link of that page on the release message would suffice.

[acco-jpitts]

@sanzoghenzo So you are saying the CLI should be functioning properly right now?

I tried swapping the first WIP 2025 installer into my deploy script and it was not working. I'll try again with the latest WIP, but I didn't see any relevant commits

[sanzoghenzo]

@sanzoghenzo So you are saying the CLI should be functioning properly right now?

I tried swapping the first WIP 2025 installer into my deploy script and it was not working. I'll try again with the latest WIP, but I didn't see any relevant commits

I only meant that this particular issue is the expected behavior: installing the pyrevitCli (not the full pyrevit) will remove the previous pyrevit .addin files from all the revit instances, if any.