[sclug] Extracting msi files

[Damion Yates]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Derek M Jones wrote:

> Does anybody know of a Linux tool that will extract the contents
> of a Microsoft Install (msi) file?
>
> I know about Wix.
>
> The Wiki article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Installer
> is very informative, from a Microsoft perspective.
>
> This link gives some interesting history.
> http://blogs.msdn.com/robmen/archive/2003/11/25/56510.aspx

Either unshield or cabextract.  These are used when playing with
things like ie6.0 under wine.

Thanks,

Damion

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