Repackaging .MSP's

[MattGreaves]

Hi all,

Apologies for my inexperience on this topic, so please forgive me..!

Can any one provide me with instructions on how to repackage an existing .msi & .msp together into a new MSI please? The software deployment method we have does not work with .msp so need to find another way of deploying it!

Many thanks,

Matt

[Bogdan]

Hi Matt and welcome to our forums,

Here is what you can try:
- the MSI import it into a new project using our "Import MSI" support, this will create a new .aip file for you
- now use the Repackager to capture the MSP installation on a clean machine where your original MSI is already installed. This will create a .rpk file, save it.
- in the new .aip file created at step 1 go to "Import Repackage Result File" and select the .rpk file from step 2

After doing all of this you might need to make some adjustments to your project, to make sure no conflicts arise or something else like that.

Regards,
Bogdan

[MattGreaves]

Hi Bogdan,

My apologies the existing installer is actually an .exe rather than an .msi so presumably the instructions below are no longer valid?! Obviously I got confused when dealing with several application titles at a time!

Cheers,
Matt

[MattGreaves]

Ignore that last message (not sure how to delete the post!) I got confused AGAIN! Will give your instructions a try and see what happens. Thank you!

[MattGreaves]

Worked out another way of doing this so no longer required. For reference I opened the existing .msi within Orca, applied the .msp and then generated a .mst file from that