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technote:extracting_msi

Extracting a TapeTrack MSI from the setup.exe

TapeTrack Windows Programs are provided in the format of an InstallShield setup executable.

This setup program will take care up upgrading the product and installing any prerequisites, such as Visual Studio runtimes.

If you wish to extract the encapsulated MSI from the setup executable, create (or select) a directory to write the msi file to.

Download the executable file you want to extract the msi file from and place it in the directory you want to write the msi file to.

open a command prompt with administrator privileges and change directory to where you have the setup executable located.

run the following code, setting the file location you want to write the msi file to (in this example C:\MSI).

setup.exe /s /x /b"C:\MSI" /v"/qn"

In the above example, the MSI will be extracted from the C:\MSI folder.

Open file explorer to locate and run the msi file for installation.

technote/extracting_msi.txt · Last modified: 2023/01/24 23:18 by scunliffe