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MSI file extraction

DiscoStu · 2002-03-25 17:12:31

Does anyone know of a tool to extract files from a microsoft msi installer file?

25-03-2002 6:12pm

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Does anyone know of a tool to extract files from a microsoft msi installer file?

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#2 26-03-2002 9:09am

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I saw some stuff on the Microsoft webpage (developer area maybe?) about this before. But can't rememeber where.

A program called "Orca" had to do with editing msi files. Try searching for this and you may end up in the right place.

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#3 26-03-2002 9:33pm

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thanks had a look on msdn and for orca. but the only way to get that prog is to download the entire windows sdk (200mb my arse).

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#4 26-03-2002 9:43pm

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you mean from like a setup.exe file?

this should work msiexec.exe /a your.msi
(you will need to specify the full path to your.msi)

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#5 27-03-2002 3:34am

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no its to get files out of a .msi file itself

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#6 27-03-2002 4:43pm

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did you try and run that on the command line with the path to the msi file

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