wine will not open Microsoft .msi installer files
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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One Hundred Papercuts |
Confirmed
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High
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Unassigned | ||
wine1.6 (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Ubuntu Vivid - and versions back as far as before 14.04. Wine will not open any .msi files any more. THIS IS NOT A WINE BUG but I don't know where else to report it. I am currently running Mint with wine 1.6.2. It was installed within Mint using apt-get and it is the identical package which Mint downloaded from the Ubuntu repo. Under Mint, this same package opens .msi files simply by asking it to use wine to open the file.
Here is what happend if I try to open an .msi with wine under Ubuntu:
$ wine ActivePython-
wine: Bad EXE format for Z:\home\
$ wine msiexec -i ActivePython-
err:msidb:
err:msidb:
fixme:storage:
err:msidb:
err:msidb:
err:msidb:
err:msidb:
err:msidb:
err:msidb:
err:msidb:
err:msidb:
err:msidb:
err:msidb:
err:msidb:
err:msidb:
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err:msidb:
err:msidb:
err:msidb:
If you need any more information or tests, please ask. I was discussing the problem with folk on a forum where I discovered that it is just about peculiar to Ubuntu - hence my using Mint at the moment. No one could remember how far back it was wnen the problem was first seen. It could have been as far back as Natty.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: wine 1:1.6.2-0ubuntu6
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.18.0-9-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.15.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Jan 27 11:00:03 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-11-05 (82 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Alpha amd64 (20141103)
SourcePackage: wine1.6
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in wine1.6 (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
no longer affects: | wine |
I raised very little interest when I asked about this on the ubuntu-uk list, so I hope someone will take the trouble to confirm it. It is emininently repeatable!