msiexec is a command prompt software that installs an msi program.

But I have found that you can install an msi file from the command line by just typing in the name of the msi file on the command line.

But in order to uninstall the msi file, it seems you have to call the msiexec program and give it an /x or /uninstall.

Does anyone know how I can uninstall and msi from the command line without using the msiexec routine?

What on earth are you trying to achieve anyway?

If lets say, you got a stupidprogram.msi, just running it within cli would yield enough options to remove...

Still, yet, no clue what you are trying to do...

There is no other way, you uninstall a msi file by supplying the /x or /uninstall parameter and that's it. No other freaking way.

This post has been edited by FarCry3r: Jan 16 2009, 08:40 PM

OK, so how do I do an uninstall of an msi file/installation using MSIEXEC from a command line?.

Now, I have tried just about everythign to make this happen

All the options failed and popped up a little window showing the proper syntax for using MSIEXEC and I thought I was using it correctly.

I tried the following it failed:

msiexec /quiet /uninstall /package filename.msi

Dude, get the command line arguments correct:

msiexec.exe <install_option> <path_of_package> <package_parameters>

msiexec.exe /x "C:\filename.msi" /qn -> where the app is found at c:\...

Let us know if you managed or not

Cheers

You must specify full path to the msi file, for example, if your msi file is

C:\App1\App.msi

then you must specify it to msiexec like this

msiexec /x C:\App1\App.msi
or
msiexec /uninstall C:\App1\App.msi

If the path have space(s), like

C:\Program Files\App Version 1\App.msi

then you must put the path to the msi file in a quote, like this

msiexec /x "C:\Program Files\App Version 1\App.msi"
or
msiexec /uninstall "C:\Program Files\App Version 1\App.msi"

Hope this helps.