The user experience to find and install the latest VIPM on Linux is pretty bad.
downloading from here https://www.vipm.io/desktop/
once unzipped the instructions say LabVIEW runtime 2013 is required, I think the instructions are out of date.
On NI's website, select Linux, LabVIEW runtime 2013, hit download, and you get the installer for 2016...
Nevermind, I'll stick with VIPM 2017