cannot determine executable type

Zsolt Rizsanyi rizsanyi at myrealbox.com
Sun Dec 8 18:32:10 CST 2002


On Saturday 07 December 2002 21:58, Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
> the *.msi is not an executable in itself, its a "document" that is
> opened by the windows installer.

You should use msiexec.exe for installing *.msi files. That is a command like:
wine "C:\windows\system\msiexec.exe" -- /i QwikStat.msi
should work.
(msiexec.exe is very probably installed during the install of Office 2000)

Regards
Zsolt

>  --- Paul Jones <pajones57 at hotmail.com> a écrit : >
>
> > Hi all
> >    I've wine installed without Windows.  I've successfully managed to
> >
> > install and run Office 2000 Standard.  However when I try to install
> > the
> > file "F:\QwikStat.msi", I receive the following email message:
> > "wine:
> > cannot determine executable type for 'F:\QwikStat.msi'"
> >
> > Any ideas what I can do to fix the problem??
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > Paul
>
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