Extract From Instellers

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Any freeware utility which can extract file from
installers .exe files similiar to unzip.
Thanks.
 
Any freeware utility which can extract file from
installers .exe files similiar to unzip.
Thanks.
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Universal Extractor is a program do to exactly what it says: extract
files from any type of archive, whether it's a simply zip file, an
installation program, or even a Windows Installer (.msi) package. What
it will do is allow you to extract files from virtually any type of
archive, regardless of source, compression method, etc. The original
motivation behind this project was that I wanted an easy, convenient
way to extract files from installation packages, such as Inno Setup or
Windows Installer packages, without pulling up a command line every
time. In the process I got a little carried away and ended up throwing
in support for every kind of archive format I possibly could find.

http://www.legroom.net/modules.php?...ource&file=index&page=software&app=uniextract

-Art- (not Art)
 
Universal Extractor is a program do to exactly what it says: extract
files from any type of archive, whether it's a simply zip file, an
installation program, or even a Windows Installer (.msi) package. What
it will do is allow you to extract files from virtually any type of
archive, regardless of source, compression method, etc. The original
motivation behind this project was that I wanted an easy, convenient
way to extract files from installation packages, such as Inno Setup or
Windows Installer packages, without pulling up a command line every
time. In the process I got a little carried away and ended up throwing
in support for every kind of archive format I possibly could find.

http://www.legroom.net/modules.php?...ource&file=index&page=software&app=uniextract

-Art- (not Art)
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Anybody tried this program? Does it work fine?
 
Universal Extractor is a program do to exactly what it says: extract
files from any type of archive, whether it's a simply zip file, an
installation program, or even a Windows Installer (.msi) package. What
it will do is allow you to extract files from virtually any type of
archive, regardless of source, compression method, etc. The original
motivation behind this project was that I wanted an easy, convenient
way to extract files from installation packages, such as Inno Setup or
Windows Installer packages, without pulling up a command line every
time. In the process I got a little carried away and ended up throwing
in support for every kind of archive format I possibly could find.

http://www.legroom.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=Open_Source&file=index&p age=software&app=uniextract

-Art- (not Art)
Click to expand...

Anybody tried this program? Does it work fine?

No not on winme os
Error message is
" This archive is suppported but extraction failed"
I tried quite a few files.
 
-Art- said:
Universal Extractor is a program do to exactly what it says: extract
files from any type of archive, whether it's a simply zip file, an
installation program, or even a Windows Installer (.msi) package. What
it will do is allow you to extract files from virtually any type of
archive, regardless of source, compression method, etc. The original
motivation behind this project was that I wanted an easy, convenient
way to extract files from installation packages, such as Inno Setup or
Windows Installer packages, without pulling up a command line every
time. In the process I got a little carried away and ended up throwing
in support for every kind of archive format I possibly could find.

http://www.legroom.net/modules.php?...ource&file=index&page=software&app=uniextract

-Art- (not Art)
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Yes! It works, but not all the time. I have an installation of an HTML
editor that I wanted to run on my USB Flash Drive. Of course you have
some of the files installed in outer space somewhere, and the program
wouldn't run for lack of a few hundred KB. Universal Extractor allowed
me to get those 4 leettle files and leave them in the path allowing me
to write whenever I can get to a computer.

However... It doesn't work all the time. I find a number of self
installers that simply leave the program stumped, and I can't extract
the same files on a slower computer (Hmph!). It really is the only
thing I have really found for it out there though!
 
Anybody tried this program? Does it work fine?

No not on winme os
Error message is
" This archive is suppported but extraction failed"
I tried quite a few files.
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I just tried on the setup file for Mozilla Firefox (that's where I
maybe need it couse Firefox 2.0 will come in MSI installer package and
on old Win98 machine, sripped a lot of it to make it faster, MSI will
not be working).

So that's why I was interested, but I got an error saying something
about an unsupported archive type, may UPX?

Thank you for your reply. I've deleted the program. I need something
that always works on any type of installer, otherwise it shouldn't
call it self 'Universal Extractor'.
 
What type of installer package?
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I got an error saying something like 'UPX archives not supported', or
similair words, so for me it's useless, unfortunatly.
Inno Setup
Use Inno Setup Unpacker <http://innounp.sourceforge.net>
do: innounp -x <package>

InstallShield
do: msiexec /a <package.msi>
also
do: setup /a
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About MSI packages: this isn't working on my pc anymore. I once (some
years ago) stripped a lot of crap from Win98 (mainly Internet related
stuff, like Internet Explorer, Outlook, and more), finished it by hand
what IEradicator left behind, dll's, regsitry entries, etc.

Also deleted a few things I though where huge in registry, and thought
I would never need, like MSI related...

I know that my browser Mozilla Firefox will start with the new big
update from version 1.5.01 to 2.0 using MSI installer.

This is not gonna work on my Win98.

Re-installing MSI won't work either, tried that some time ago, I guess
I removed just a little to much :-)

It's not that much of a big problem cause I'm going to switch to Linux
Slackware or FreeBSD Unix anyway, I'm testing these now on 2 seperate
machines, it works, for the most part works very superb, but still so
much to learn after years of windows, and being very much used to
that, and altered my system for my personal needs, and a very nice
collection of all the freeware I need.

Maybe this MSI thing will force me to quicker make one of the other
systems my default ;-)

There's a program which I will the first time on Unix/Linux: Pegasus
Mail: http://www.pmail.com/ , in my opinion the best ever written free
email client for Windows, have nor found yet anything alike for
Unix/Linux.

And my favorite image browser/editor XnView currently isn't working on
Slackware (a library thing), and on FreeBSD it crashes when in full
screen.

That's why I wanted to give myself some more time with Windows, and be
able to unpack Mozilla Firefox MSI packages without MSI on my system,
which is not gonna work anyway.
 
Yes! It works, but not all the time. I have an installation of an HTML
editor that I wanted to run on my USB Flash Drive. Of course you have
some of the files installed in outer space somewhere, and the program
wouldn't run for lack of a few hundred KB. Universal Extractor allowed
me to get those 4 leettle files and leave them in the path allowing me
to write whenever I can get to a computer.

However... It doesn't work all the time. I find a number of self
installers that simply leave the program stumped, and I can't extract
the same files on a slower computer (Hmph!). It really is the only
thing I have really found for it out there though!
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Thanks for your reply. In the mean time I tried it myself and got an
error about something like 'UPX compressed archives' not supported.

Well, then it should not call itself 'Universal Extractor', in my
opinion. But who knows, it may get more universal in the future. It's
freeware, and a niece initiative anyway.
 
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