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

["Jesús Guerrero" <i92guboj@terra.es>]

On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:17:28 +0100, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
wrote:
> 2009/9/10 Adam Carter <Adam.Carter@optus.com.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. 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