how can i revert back to msi installer old version

rd1381 · Post by **rd1381** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 2:26 pm

hi i updated msi installer to v3 (Windows ® Installer. V 3.01.4000.1823)
but after that i cant install any msi package
every time i try it just brings msi command line option in a window and doesnt install any thing , it just like i typed just 'wine msiexec'

how can i fix this?
should i revert back to older version of msiinstaller? how?

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 2:29 pm

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:26 PM, rd1381 <[email protected]> wrote:

hi i updated msi installer to v3 (Windows ® Installer. V 3.01.4000.1823)
but after that i cant install any msi package
every time i try it just brings msi command line option in a window and doesnt install any thing , it just like i typed just 'wine msiexec'

how can i fix this?
should i revert back to older version of msiinstaller? how?

Read the FAQ on how to create a new prefix.

John

rd1381 · Post by **rd1381** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 10:32 am

how thats supposed to help?
i tried a WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine-second" and then wine explorer and then from there i opened a msi file but it was as before

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 10:47 am

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:32 AM, rd1381 <[email protected]> wrote:

how thats supposed to help?
i tried a WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine-second" and then wine explorer and then from there i opened a msi file but it was as before

Inside the new prefix you will have a clean slate no installed
applications and no msi. I leave the discussion to others about wine
explorer because I do not use that.

John

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 11:13 am

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:47 AM, John Drescher <[email protected]> wrote:

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:32 AM, rd1381 <[email protected]> wrote:
how thats supposed to help?
i tried a Â WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine-second" and then wine explorer and then from there i opened a msi file but it was as before

Inside the new prefix you will have a clean slate no installed
applications and no msi. I leave the discussion to others about wine
explorer because I do not use that.

John

When did it work/break? A particular wine version?

--
-Austin

rd1381 · Post by **rd1381** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 5:42 am

When did it work/break? A particular wine version?

i dont remember but i think it was 1.15 or 1.14
has anybody here tried msi installerv3?
i think i installed it from winetricks

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:47 am

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:42 AM, rd1381 <[email protected]> wrote:

When did it work/break? A particular wine version?

i dont remember but i think it was 1.15 or 1.14
has anybody here tried msi installerv3?
i think i installed it from winetricks

A regression test would help:

http://wiki.winehq.org/RegressionTesting

--
-Austin

rd1381 · Post by **rd1381** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 10:11 am

i cant do all that

for starters my internet connection is very slow

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 12:29 pm

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:11 AM, rd1381 <[email protected]> wrote:

i cant do all that
for starters my internet connection is very slow

Is this msi from winetricks that's broken? Can you point to a sample msi?

--
-Austin

rd1381 · Post by **rd1381** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 1:13 pm

i cant install any updates from winetricks
and i cant install any other msi package like for example WindowsVistaUpgradeAdvisor.msi

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 1:29 pm

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:13 PM, rd1381 <[email protected]> wrote:

i cant install any updates from winetricks
and i cant install any other msi package like for example WindowsVistaUpgradeAdvisor.msi

terminal output showing what happens when you try would help

John

rd1381 · Post by **rd1381** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 2:07 am

nothing
when i type for example : wine msiexec creator.msi (its a msi file for mobipocket creator)
it just shows the command line options for msi installer in a gui window and nothing in the terminal

and when i try winetricks and select for example msxml4 ,it shows the command line option for msi installer again and winetricks gives an error
:Winetricks error: Note: command 'wine msiexec /i /home/reza/.winetrickscache/msxml4.msi' returned status 103. Aborting.

rd1381 · Post by **rd1381** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 2:14 am

update:

when i tried "wine msiexec /i creator.msi" it didnt give me the coommand line option but instead gives me this error :

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fixme:sfc:SFC_3 0
fixme:ntdll:find_reg_tz_info Can't find matching timezone information in the registry for bias -210, std (d/m/y): 22/09/2009, dlt (d/m/y): 22/03/2009
fixme:advapi:RegisterEventSourceW ((null),L"MsiInstaller"): stub
fixme:advapi:ReportEventW (0xcafe4242,0x0001,0x0000,0x000003f0,0x14da58,0x0004,0x00000000,0x54db90,(nil)): stub
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"Y:\\creator.msi"
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"(NULL)"
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"(NULL)"
err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"(NULL)"
fixme:advapi:DeregisterEventSource (0xcafe4242) stub
The system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation.

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 8:51 am

rd1381 wrote:update:

when i tried "wine msiexec /i creator.msi" it didnt give me the coommand line option but instead gives me this error :

If you don't understand how to use wineprefixes, remove/rename ~/.wine directory.

rd1381 · Post by **rd1381** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:32 am

vitamin wrote:
rd1381 wrote:update:

when i tried "wine msiexec /i creator.msi" it didnt give me the coommand line option but instead gives me this error :
If you don't understand how to use wineprefixes, remove/rename ~/.wine directory.

by doing that it works but i have many setting in .wine directory that i dont wanna lose

how can i fix this\?
"The system administrator has set policies to prevent this installation."
and how can i be administrator ?
or if i am admin how can i NOT "prevent this installation"?

rd1381 · Post by **rd1381** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:44 am

i think wine thinks i have another msi installation that is running because when i type "wine msiexec /unregister" it says

"Another installation is already in progress. Complete that installation before proceeding with this install"

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:51 am

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:44 AM, rd1381 <[email protected]> wrote:

i think wine thinks i have another msi installation that is running because when i type Â "wine msiexec /unregister" it says

"Another installation is already in progress. Â Complete that installation before proceeding with this install"

Odds are all the fiddling left an installation incomplete or somehow
else botched the settings.

A clean prefix is your best bet. That's why it's good practice to use
a different prefix for each application.

--
-Austin

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:56 am

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:32 PM, rd1381 <[email protected]> wrote:

vitamin wrote:
rd1381 wrote:
update:

when i tried "wine msiexec /i creator.msi" it didnt give me the coommand line option but instead gives me this error :
If you don't understand how to use wineprefixes, remove/rename ~/.wine directory.
by doing that it works but i have many setting in .wine directory that i dont wanna lose

how can i fix this\?

rename the current .wine to .wine_old

reset any menu items for installed applications to .wine_old

then run winecfg and you should have a new clean prefix for additional
installs...

John

rd1381 · Post by **rd1381** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:38 pm

austin987 wrote:That's why it's good practice to use
a different prefix for each application.

--
-Austin

how do i use a different prefix?
what is a prefix?
does that mean i would have many .wine folders?

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:55 pm

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:38 PM, rd1381 <[email protected]> wrote:

austin987 wrote:
That's why it's good practice to use
a different prefix for each application.

--
-Austin
how do i use a different prefix?

The WINEPREFIX environmental variable.

what is a prefix?

Where wine stores its settings/files.

does that mean i would have many .wine folders?

sortof, you'd have them named different things, but yes.

--
-Austin

rd1381 · Post by **rd1381** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 12:17 am

austin987 wrote:On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:38 PM, rd1381 <[email protected]> wrote:
austin987 wrote:
That's why it's good practice to use
a different prefix for each application.

--
-Austin
how do i use a different prefix?
The WINEPREFIX environmental variable.

what is a prefix?
Where wine stores its settings/files.

does that mean i would have many .wine folders?
sortof, you'd have them named different things, but yes.

--
-Austin

thanks but i hoped there was a gui prefix manager or something like that
that would be so cool

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 11:00 pm

rd1381 wrote:

austin987 wrote:

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:38 PM, rd1381 <[email protected]> wrote:

austin987 wrote:

how do i use a different prefix?

The WINEPREFIX environmental variable.

what is a prefix?

Where wine stores its settings/files.

does that mean i would have many .wine folders?

sortof, you'd have them named different things, but yes.

--
-Austin

thanks but i hoped there was a gui prefix manager or something like that
that would be so cool

There was a launcher under construction. I don't know its status.

However, the name for different wine prefixes is to call them bottles
(Wine does come in them.)

If you want a program with a nice GUI interface and are willing to pay
for it, there is CrossOver for Linux/Mac.

However, if you don't want to go that way, you can do this:

WINEPREFIX=$HOME/my_new_wine_prefix wine <your installation program goes
here>

from the directory for your program.

Then you can invoke the program by typing in:

WINEPREFIX=$HOME/my_new_wine_prefix wine 'C:\Program Files\<installation
directory of your program>\<program name>.exe

This should run your program.

James McKenzie