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This library is legacy code borrowed from Python 3.12, intended to allow cx_Freeze's bdist_msi command to continue working in Python 3.13 and 3.14.

Choose the Python package manager according to your system. See how the installation works with the most common ones, which are pip and conda.

To install the latest version of python-msilib into a virtual environment:

uv pip install --upgrade python-msilib

If using pip:

pip install --upgrade python-msilib

From the conda-forge channel:

conda install conda-forge::python-msilib

To install the latest development build:

uv pip uninstall python-msilib
uv pip install --extra-index-url https://test.pypi.org/simple/ python-msilib --prerelease=allow --index-strategy=unsafe-best-match

If using pip:

pip uninstall python-msilib
pip install --extra-index-url https://test.pypi.org/simple/ python-msilib --pre --no-cache

Please read the documentation at Python docs.