[Casper] Acrobat Pro

Miles Leacy miles.leacy at themacadmin.com
Mon Dec 8 09:50:06 PST 2008


Did you remove /private/tmp from the exclusion list in Composer preferences
*before* building your package?
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2008/12/8 Nichols, Jared <jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu>

>  Is there a best-practice way to run these updates then?  I just tried
> deploying to /tmp and I don't seem to see it anywhere in there.
>
> Hrm.
>
> j
>
>
> On 12/8/08 12:28 , "Smith, William" <william.smith at merrillcorp.com> wrote:
>
> The problem I've seen with Adobe's Acrobat 8.x updaters is that they are
> not scriptable like those for the other CS3 applications. Those .app
> updaters can be called with a –silent switch but not Acrobat's. :-(
>
> These Acrobat updaters also require that you select the Acrobat application
> to patch and also may ask you to "repair" the installation, which is
> Adobespeak for "let me put back my Safari and Office plugins and set myself
> to default again." These prompts must be manually dismissed.
>
> Also, JAMF may have a difficult time getting CS4 to work because the
> –silent update for those suites wants to connect to the Internet to download
> updates as part of the install process. In our environment our Macs must
> authenticate to our proxy (no free love access) and that just hangs the
> install.
>
>
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> Jared Nichols
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