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Windows installer (.MSI) tool. Version 0.106 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.
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Additional install commands
overview
Package summary
Windows installer (.MSI) tool
Project links
Commands and aliases
- msibuild
- msidiff
- msidump
- msiextract
- msiinfo
- wixl
- wixl-heat
history
Project history and usage
msitools is a GNOME-hosted toolkit for inspecting, extracting, comparing, and building Windows Installer MSI files on non-Windows systems. The GNOME wiki describes it as a set of programs based on libmsi, a portable library for reading and writing MSI files; libmsi itself is described there as a port of a subset of Wine's Windows Installer implementation.
Project history
The package's practical value is cross-platform packaging. Its small tools mirror the structure of MSI work: msiinfo inspects packages, msiextract extracts files, msidump dumps tables and streams, msidiff compares packages, and msibuild creates packages at a lower level. The suite also includes wixl, a WiX-like XML-to-MSI builder, and wixl-heat for generating XML fragments from file trees.
How it is used
In package-manager terms, msitools occupies the Unix side of Windows installer workflows: it lets Linux and macOS build systems examine or produce MSI artifacts without installing Microsoft's toolchain. Debian packages it as a Windows Installer manipulation tool and exposes related libmsi and wixl packages, matching the upstream split between the library and command-line tools.
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security posture
Risk level: green
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Risk classifier
green risk · low confidence · appliance
Why
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signals
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
msibuild | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
msidiff | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
msidump | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
msiextract | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
msiinfo | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
wixl | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
wixl-heat | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version0.106
manager updated
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:msitools |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.106 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://wiki.gnome.org/msitools |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation