[Wine] Re: failed autoexecutable msi installer

[Usurp]

Carl Fischer wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 14:08 -0500, vitamin wrote:
> 
> > Carl Fischer wrote:
> > 
> > > Output from attempted installation:
> > > 
> > > [carl at carl-macbook:~]% wine '/home/carl/OperaDownloads/MTSDK_v3.0.2/MTSDK_v3.0.2.exe'
> > > Usage:
> > > Install a product:
> > > msiexec {package|productcode} [property]
> > > msiexec /i {package|productcode} [property]
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > Looks like a long known problem. You might want to extract content of the exe file. And use msiexec directly on the .msi file that's inside that archive.
> > 
> 
> Thanks for your reply. I already extracted the contents of the file but
> there is no .msi file inside, or any other archives that I can see.
> 
> -- 
> Carl

There is a msi installer inside that file at offset 249586.
Hint :
$ dd if=MTSDK_v3.0.2.exe of=MTSDK_v3.0.2.msi bs=512 skip=488
464190+1 records in
464190+1 records out
237665656 bytes (238 MB) copied, 19.703 s, 12.1 MB/s

Sylvain at vincentx64 ~/My Documents
$ file MTSDK_v3.0.2.msi
MTSDK_v3.0.2.msi: Microsoft Installer