wine users - Jul 2001 - Windows Installer On Wine

I am using Wine release 20010629 on Mandrake 8. I do not have windows
installed on that box at all. I do have Win2k on my other computer (this
one)

I attempted to install Office 2000, but it requiered Windows Installer. So I
tried to install Windows Installer but I get this error:
This installation package could not be opened. Contact the application
vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows Installer package.

That was running the Windows Installer package from MS.

How can I get Windows Installer to work under Wine, short of installing
windows on that box?

In article <Vd%17.19$jm5.13130@sapphire.mtt.net>,
Bradley <bradley@skating.dyn.ca> wrote:
>How can I get Windows Installer to work under Wine, short of installing
>windows on that box?
Do you have a setup.exe or a .msi file?

If you have the .msi file, you could *possibly* try the msi2xml tool at
http://www.linkcad.com/msi2xml/msi2xml.htm. 

This *might* break up the msi file into component parts in addition to
creating the xml description.  If that is the case, you could then manually
put the pieces where they go, based upon the xml description.

This is just a wild assed guess, though.

mrc


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