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I found a way to unpack the Ableton Live Suite Installer without installing!

you need lessmsi for that: https://github.com/activescott/lessmsi/releases
UniExtract: https://github.com/Bioruebe/UniExtract2/releases

1. unpack the Ableton Live Suite Installer.exe, we need the MSI file. We can extract easily with UniExtract.
2. load the MSI file with lessmsi, be sure to have the cab files in the same folder as the MSI file.
3. Click on extract.
4. Save the Folder a place, where you want your Ableton Folder to be.

5. The setup is now not saved on your HDD/SSD. And you dont need to uninstall.
IMO just faster and better as the installer.

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For Live 10, we can drop the MSI file in UniExtract and it will unpack just fine.

 

The installer is saved (2,65GB saved), Installer takes long to install sometimes and does nothing.

Also if you install multiple Ableton versions, the setup will be saved for uninstalling, takes up extra storage.
Like i wrote somewhere, i had 10 Ableton Setups saved in Package Cache, because i usually dont unisntall, just delete the folder.

For me it is just faster to do it that way.

 

from here: https://github.com/montoulieu/ableton-live-downloader

 

i have assumed you already know a bit about how MSI files work and also what programs like UniExtract work.

Here is a noob guide:
Ableton zip files -1-> Ableton Setup file exe + cab files -2-> The MSI file inside + copy cab files to the MSI file -3-> Ableton Folder -4-> Ableton Unpacked + Ready to start the Ableton Suite 1x.exe

1 Winrar or any zip decompressing tool
2 UniExtract drag the Ableton exe file into UniExtract, let it analyse.
3 lessMSI be sure to have the cab files in the same folder, load MSI file into and click extract
4 Have ableton ready to start.

 

i used it a few days ago. basically UniExtract needs to detect that the Ableton Live 11 Suite Installer.exe is packed with WiX installer, if it does, it will unpack it and in there should be the WiX script and the MSI.

WiX is based on MSI and scripting on top.

Have you used the newest Uni Extract version?

Other option to check, have you looked through all files in the unpacked folder?

I have tested with Ableton 11.1b4 setup and it worked fine for me.

 

the exe file next tot he cab files is the WiX installer.

 

version 11 has definitely. Since the installer grew by a lot and they had to deal with the 2GB limit and splited the setup file into two cab files.