Was standing open mouthed : MSI file works ! (Wine : bad EXE format)

[Tereva]

Hi there,

I was feeling a little maverick tonight, so I decide to install Python 3 XP release with wine, so I can use Python 3 for personal coding while the system use Python 2 (linux release) for itself.

So I download the .MSI windows 32b files, open a terminal and start to launch the install with wine.

I tried many things but each time the install failed -even before having really started in fact- with this error message :

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wine: Bad EXE format for C:\Temp\python-3.1.2.msi

I was running out of idea, when by accident I double click the msi file while using my file manager (PCMAN file since I use LXDE).
And them I was stunned to see a windows pop up asking me where I wanted you install python 3 !


Ok, so I figured out that when I installed wine, it set itself to open MSI files.

Very well, but in this case, why I got the 'bad EXE format' error when I tried to open the file from a terminal ?

Anyone has an idea ?

Thx

Tereva

[wedgetail]

Tereva
Exactly how did you try to start the install, show the command line content including prompt.

[Tereva]

Hi Wedgeling,

Tereva
Exactly how did you try to start the install, show the command line content including prompt.

Here is what happen when I try to use the command line with wine :

I show you the result of pwd and ll command to show you the direct directory

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[frfst3c@localhost Temp]$ pwd
/home/frfst3c/.wine/drive_c/Temp
[frfst3c@localhost Temp]$ ll
total 13768
-rwx------ 1 frfst3c frfst3c 14098432 2010-08-27 21:21 python-3.1.2.msi*
[frfst3c@localhost Temp]$ wine ./python-3.1.2.msi
wine: Bad EXE format for C:\Temp\python-3.1.2.msi
[frfst3c@localhost Temp]$ ^C
[frfst3c@localhost Temp]$

Once again it works when I double click on it on the file manager application.

Thx

Tereva

[schtufbox]

Hi,
try this:

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wine msiexec /i xyz.msi

substituting xyz with the name of the actual msi installer file

[wedgetail]

Tereva

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[gert@localhost ~]$ ll
total 68
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  6980 2010-08-25 19:46 100825-aptgetupdate.glk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  7292 2010-08-26 00:08 100826-aptbigupdate
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     0 2010-08-25 23:58 100826-update.glk
..
...
....

Notice that ll command is in the linux world, it is not a windows state, Linux does not know how to interpret the exe file as it finds errors in the file.  Whereas the file manager has the ability to figure out that wine is already installed and working and this is a job for wine.

schtufbox has shown a way to start a windows program to run in wine.  From memory this is also shown in the wine documentatin 

[Tereva]

Of course  :  .msi aren't executable files !

I'm so used to just double clik them in MicroSoft OS that I forgot this and haven't search that way :/

Thx to both of you !

Tereva