How To Install msitools on Fedora 34
msitools is Windows Installer tools
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install msitools on Fedora 34.
What is msitools
msitools is a collection of utilities to inspect and create Windows Installer files. It is useful in a cross-compilation environment such as fedora-mingw.
We can use yum or dnf to install msitools on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install msitools.
Install msitools on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install msitools using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install msitools
Install msitools on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install msitools using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install msitools
How To Uninstall msitools on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the msitools package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove msitools
msitools Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/msibuild
/usr/bin/msidiff
/usr/bin/msidump
/usr/bin/msiextract
/usr/bin/msiinfo
/usr/bin/wixl
/usr/bin/wixl-heat
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5a
/usr/lib/.build-id/5a/509ee1bec7604bc2536522e47765b9cfad58f2
/usr/lib/.build-id/72
/usr/lib/.build-id/72/87c7cd2e34c305f41a64ab6fa0243bf9f0134b
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3/06ff69b4a1d9718cc0802bad6f8f6777a84dcb
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7/fa88fbafbee1f7731a689c8b643dc741afb94a
/usr/lib/.build-id/e3
/usr/lib/.build-id/e3/f42156687fc418265f214394dd23a1636db17b
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/msitools
/usr/share/doc/msitools
/usr/share/doc/msitools/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/msitools/README.md
/usr/share/doc/msitools/TODO
/usr/share/doc/msitools/copyright
/usr/share/wixl-0.101
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/SDL.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/adwaita-icon-theme.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/atk.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/brotli.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/bzip2.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/cairo.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/curl.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/dlfcn.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/expat.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/fontconfig.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/freetype.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/fribidi.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/gcc-c++.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/gcc.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/gdk-pixbuf.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/gettext.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/glib-networking.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/glib2.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/gmp.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/gnutls.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/gsm.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/gstreamer1-plugins-base.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/gstreamer1-plugins-good.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/gstreamer1.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/gtk-vnc2.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/gtk2.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/gtk3.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/gvnc.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/harfbuzz.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/hicolor-icon-theme.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/icu.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/jasper.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/json-glib.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/libcacard.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/libepoxy.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/libffi.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/libgcrypt.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/libgovirt.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/libgpg-error.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/libidn2.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/libjpeg-turbo.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/libogg.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/libpng.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/libpsl.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/libsoup.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/libssh2.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/libtasn1.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/libtheora.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/libtiff.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/libunistring.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/libusbx.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/libvirt-glib.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/libvirt.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/libvorbis.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/libxml2.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/nettle.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/openssl.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/opus.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/orc.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/p11-kit.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/pango.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/pcre.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/pixman.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/portablexdr.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/readline.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/rest.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/speex.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/spice-glib.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/spice-gtk3.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/sqlite.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/termcap.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/usbredir.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/wavpack.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/win-iconv.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/winpthreads.wxi
/usr/share/wixl-0.101/include/zlib.wxi
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install msitools on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.