Installing MSI files with wine

Wine is widely used to install windows applications in Linux. The common procedure to install a windows application using wine is to issue the command "wine /path/to/exe". For example:

safeer@linux-lp-01:~$/usr/bin/wine ~/downloads/MP10Setup.exe

But this will fail if the package is an MSI package.

safeer@linux-lp-01:~/downloads$ wine msxml6.msi
wine: could not load L"Z:\\home\\safeer\\downloads\\msxml6.msi": Bad EXE format for

To manage MSI files we have to use "msiexec"

safeer@linux-lp-01:~/downloads$ msiexec /i msxml6.msi

This will work, for more details on msiexec, try "/usr/bin/msiexec /h"