Cool list of MSI setup tricks

You can download ORCA separately from here

Zappa — Tue, 23 May 2006 21:08:31 GMT

I don't know if it can be installed, but can be downloaded separately from here:

http://www.pek.com/blogs/pek/archives/2005/02/orcamsi_for_dow.php

or

http://www.pek.com/projects/msi/orca.zip

Getting ORCA

Robert Hinds — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 22:18:04 GMT

If you have trouble with the Microsoft Web Installer for the Platform SDK, use the Full install options. If you don't want to download all of the CAB files, I was able to download just enough to install the MSI portion and grab the orca.msi. I suppose you can extract the cab files in install further to get just orca.msi, but I did not determine which cab file contains the orca.msi. I had extracted cab file 1-6, then 14, 15, and 16. I think you only need 1 and 15. You need extract.exe as well. If you don't have it, it is in the PSDK-FULL.exe file.

re: Cool list of MSI setup tricks

Aaron Stebner — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 19:13:00 GMT

The problem is the Platform SDK website lists the Core SDK as a prerequisite for the Windows Installer SDK, so I'm not sure you can install only the Windows Installer piece. I'm going to try to dig into that and figure out if it is possible when I have some time later today....

re: Cool list of MSI setup tricks

Mike Dimmick — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 16:58:00 GMT

You should be able to select 'Windows Installer SDK' only from the Platform SDK Update site, http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/

It's still an 8MB download, though. Windows Installer SDK 1.0 and 1.1 were available as separate redistributable downloads.