Hi Gearoid,
Aric and I have been working on a replacement for MSI.DLL that would eliminate the need to download the Windows installer distributable to install .msi files.
We have made quite a bit of progress on this in the last couple of months, but the work is not yet complete. After I finish flushing out the work we've done, it should be possible to install some simple .msi files without any Windows DLLs at all.
We are still missing an implementation of msiexec, but it is a fairly trivial wrapper around msi.dll, so should not be too hard to implement.
The native msi dlls (ie. the MS redistributables) have worked in Wine for more than two years :) They contain a few annoying bugs which are hard to workaround...
Mike
Gearoid Donnellan wrote:
Hey again,
I am very shocked that this actually works and you probably know already but If you down load and extract the Windows Installer redistributable in the wine directory you can then install MSI's using "wine msiexec /i <msiname>". Tried it with winzip.msi and it worked perfectly. Don't know if that will hold through with others though