Re: [gentoo-user] Unpacking a .exe file

[Mick]

2009/9/10 Jesús Guerrero <i92guboj@×××××.es>:
> On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:17:28 +0100, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
> wrote:
>> 2009/9/10 Adam Carter <Adam.Carter@×××××××××.au>:
>>> Did you try running the .exe with wine?
>>
>> Thanks Adam, I don't have WINE on this old machine, or the space for
>> it.  Even if I did - how do I find the files (don't know what their
>> names are).  Is it a matter of running the .exe so that it installs
>> and assuming that it does not fail then diff-ing the fs before and
>> after, or ls -l -a -t to find the latest files which were modified?
>
> Well, the installer itself needs to be decompressed to run. Most windows
> installers install the intermediate files in c:\windows\temp (which
> usually would be ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/temp. Some others create a
> temporal dir under c:\ (~/.wine/drive_c). It's a matter of firing
> up the installer and go looking around there with each step until
> you can find them.
>
>
> By the way, I've tried decompressing the file with 7z and it indeed
> extracts 6 files, however I have no idea what they contain.

Hmm ... p7zip does not seem to like it over here - is it different to 7z?

$ p7zip -d wg511v2_3_2.exe
/usr/bin/p7zip: wg511v2_3_2.exe: unknown suffix -- ignored


> It must
> be the pieces that installshield chain together. I have no idea if
> it's possible to extract something from there or not. There's a big
> file called textually '[DATA]', which is the biggest one, so the
> stuff must be there. I guess that's the one containing the compressed
> files, the rest of the files must be the exe header and the install
> shield control into. However I haven't manager to decompress that
> '[DATA]' file using anything.
>
> --
> Jesús Guerrero
>
>



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Regards,
Mick