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How To Install Windows msi Installers With Wine on Linux

October 23rd, 2007 by Angsuman Chakraborty

Sometimes windows installers come with msi extension instead of regular exe extension. Such software can be installed with the msiexec command which comes with wine. For example to install a file setup.msi you will run:
msiexec setup.msi

Did you know that even Adobe Photoshop runs in Linux using wine?
Wine can eliminate your migration pain from Windows (to Linux).


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