MSI is a file format used for packaging application installations on Windows.
Today, I needed to extract the contents of an MSI file and discovered a straightforward method to achieve this on both Linux and Windows.
It turns out that the 7-Zip Windows application can successfully extract files from MSI files.
Initially, I confirmed its functionality on Windows.
In Linux, I used the 7z shell command to extract files from an MSI file:
7z x msi-file.msi
For example:
