universalextractor - unpack and pack

Mon, 07/23/2007 - 04:23 — Anonymous

universalextractor is unpacking all kinds of inno installer.exe or wise installer.exe very good.

but if i extract a wise installer.exe, i also want to pack it the same way again into a wise installer.exe...After I modified the unpacked files.

How can i do that?

Universal Extractor

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Tue, 07/24/2007 - 03:44 — jbreland

Re: universalextractor - unpack and pack

Unfortunately, you can't; at least not with Universal Extractor. I believe there may be some hacking tools out there that allow modification of Wise installers, but I'm not familiar with any of them. UniExtract itself will only unpack/extract files.

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Sun, 10/28/2007 - 06:18 — Anonymous (not verified)

Re: universalextractor - unpack and pack

I'm also looking for a "repacker"!

I need to unpack (done), modify (done) and finally repack an InstallShield exe.

My only problem is repacking it, everything else is just easy.

What's the tool to repack a bunch of InstallShield files like installation script, Cabs etc into the all-in-one exe?

Can I use InstallShield itself to achieve that??

Tue, 10/30/2007 - 07:22 — jbreland

Re: universalextractor - unpack and pack

I'm really not sure, short of using InstallShield itself. You can try checking out http://programmerstools.org/; they have a pretty good selection of installer-related utilities, but most if it seems more geared towards unpacking than packing.

Alternatively, you could just rewrite the installer in a free product such as Inno Setup. It may require a bit more work on the frontend to learn how to do it, but then you can re-use that knowledge to create additional installers going forward.

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Tue, 12/18/2007 - 11:03 — Anonymous (not verified)