Issue with msiexec.exe

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I spent most of yesterday afternoon and some time this morning trying to figure out this issue I'm having with no luck.

Now I've got the melodrama out of the way...


Basically what I'm trying to do is silently install a program using msiexec. When I run the following command msiexec.exe /I "C:\temp\CorelDRAW 12\CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12.msi" ENLANG=1 USERNAME=ITManager COMPANYNAME=Heathside SERIALNUMBER=xxx-xxx-xxx /quiet, the msiexec.exe process runs but it doesn't do anything and just hangs for ages. If I remove the "/quiet" switch I can see why it isn't running because I get the following error:

This installation package could not be opened. Verify that the package exists and that you can access it, or contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows Installer package.

The .msi works fine because I can run it and install the program manually. The property values should work because I got them from the software's installation manual and it pretty much had the command I'm trying to run as an example anyway. Incidentally, if I just type "msiexec.exe /I" into command prompt the same error pops up, so maybe it's simply(!) an issue with Windows Installer.


Any help will be appreciated.