Comments on: Howto Extract all Files from Microsoft Installer Files (msi) rather than to Install the Package

By: sysblog

sysblog — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:23:26 +0000

From what i can gather it seams msiexe cannot extract selected files only. You may get more/better info e.g. at Microsoft's help pages

By: MSM

MSM — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:08:10 +0000

Hey,

Can I extract only selected and not all files from MSI??

Regards,
MSM

By: sysblog

sysblog — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:30:03 +0000

Thanks, mate, for this helpful tip!

Cheers.

By: Charles Thayer

Charles Thayer — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:53:54 +0000

I use Ubuntu Linux, and I’ve found that installing p7zip and running “7z x .msi” works well. (see http://www.7-zip.org). Others have had success with wine and “msiexec”.

Good luck,
/charles thayer

By: Andris

Andris — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:38:23 +0000

Thanks for sharing this. I just need to clarify that it’s important to specify the full path to the destination directory in TARGETDIR property. If your path is not fully qualified then the msiexec tries to connect to the server which name will be equal to the name you’ve specified.