wine users - Aug 2010 - Installing .msiexec file

Hi. Newbie here. Read that Wine 1.2 will run .msiexec files and the 
way to install it is as user in terminal window: cd Desktop, then type 
msiexec /i filename.  Is that right or should I do something else? 
Thanks.                            Bob

cd to the dir where you downloaded the file. If that's ~/Desktop, cd there,
otherwise cd to that other dir.

That command should be good. If it doesn't work, wine start filename.msi
works too.

The output indicated that the file did indeed run (there's some actual Wine
output there), but something somehow failed when Wine tried to run the
installer.

I don't know what, though... I did a Google search on that last line and it
only came with unsolved forum threads. You could go to bugs.winehq.org and file
a bug about this (but make sure you search around if someone else didn't
report something similar first).

Bob Benjamin wrote:
> Read that Wine 1.2 will run .msiexec files and the way to install it is as
user in terminal window
What exactly are you trying to install?

Bob Benjamin wrote:
> I have a Solitaire game here (exe file) 
> and you experts told me to get the installer to work, set the emulator 
> in wine to Win 98. Did that and it's fine. Will that matter with the
msi
> file. 
It will matter if the app requires a newer version of Windows, which is likely.
Set it back to XP and see what happens.

Windows versions can be set on a per-app basis in winecfg. Add your solitaire
game to the Applications tab, select it, and set the Windows version just for
that game. Keep the default global setting as XP, because that works best for
most apps.

Bob Benjamin wrote:
> It's a video conferencing program.
The name? Who made it? AppDB link?

Bob Benjamin wrote:
> More info. In Wine, clicking Drive_C brings up a box with "files of 
> type" and a drop down arrow. The only files there are .exe and .exe.so
> Nothing else drops down. No .msi. Adding the ispq9.msi doesn't help. 
> Wonder if this means Wine doesn't accept or know about the .msi. If
this
> is a dumb question. it's because I'm a Newbie and really just
guessing.
> Tks for the help and patience! :-)           Bob
> 
You said the msi file was on your desktop. That's not part of wine's
fake C: drive.

I downloaded the file and got the same results as you. File a bug.

Bob Benjamin wrote:
> OK Will do. Any chance that it would work in Fedora fc 13?  
> 
It's a Wine issue; changing distro won't help.

Robert Benjamin wrote:
> Filed the bug #614546.  In the meantime would it help if I deleted 
> 1.2 and installed 1.3?  
> 
File the bug here, not with your distro. It doesn't work in 1.3.0;
that's what I'm using.