[Wine]running MSI or EXE

[James Hawkins]

> I can touch the file, but keep with the same error. I read that the OS
> version should be set to 98 or 9x but I guess mp3br.msi is only for XP.

When it says that the OS version should be 98 or 9x, that means that
your wine config file should speciy win98.  The message that you read
doesn't mean that msi can only read .msi files that are from 98 or 9x,
so unless I'm mistaken, msi should be able to open mp3br.msi even if
it was written in/for XP.  The one problem with this is that msi isn't
exactly complete yet, so it might be a problem with wine's
implementation of msi that is causing your problem.  If you haven't
changed your OS version yet, edit your .wine/config file and make this
change:

[Version]
; Windows version to imitate
(win95,win98,winme,nt351,nt40,win2k,winxp,win2k3,win20,win30,win31)
"Windows" = "win98"


On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 16:29:37 -0500, Rodrigo Poblanno Balp <balpo at gmx.net> wrote:
> I can touch the file, but keep with the same error. I read that the OS
> version should be set to 98 or 9x but I guess mp3br.msi is only for XP.
> Any other suggestions?
> Thanx.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Duane Clark" <dclark at akamail.com>
> To: <wine-users at winehq.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 10:35 AM
> Subject: Re: [Wine]running MSI or EXE
> 
> > Rodrigo Poblanno Balp wrote:
> > > I want to install an app for mp3's called mp3br that comes in an 'msi'
> > > file but I cannot install it for 'msi' is not a valid.
> > > I installed msiexec.exe and everything went on correctly, I read online
> > > that I should install msi's like this:
> > > wine msiexec.exe /i mp3br.msi
> > > but I get the error message telling me that ntdll.dll is not found. I
> > > added it to the wine.config
> > > as "native, builtin" but it still shows that message.
> > > Anyone knows how to run msi installers?
> >
> > Wine cannot use the Windows ntdll, so doing that won't work. I would
> > gues that perhaps msiexec is checking for the existance of ntdll in the
> > c:\windows\system or system32 directories. So the first thing to try is
> > to do something like:
> > touch ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system/ntdll.dll
> > If that doesn't change the error message, maybe try
> > mkdir ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32
> > touch ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/ntdll.dll
> >
> > See if one of those either makes it work, or at least changes the error
> > message.
> >
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James Hawkins