[Casper] Acrobat Pro

[Nichols, Jared]

Hi-

I actually did something similar.  I decided to deploy to /Library/Caches and have the script call it from there.  My weekly system maintenance clears out caches, so that should take care of the installer.

As far as why I'm deploying as is...My main goal is to cut down on our customization.  Where possible, I'd like to use straight packages.  Yes, there are times where it makes sense to re-package it.  It's looking like the pre-CS3 packages are going to be one of those cases.  At any rate, this was for a group of test machines anyway.  I'm new to Casper and haven't quite sorted out what the best practice for each type of installer is yet, so a lot of it is trial by doing so I understand the what/how/whys.  I must say, the support from the lists and Jamf itself I'm very impressed with.  Always quick, always professional.

Thanks

j


On 12/8/08 13:47 , "Miles Leacy" <miles.leacy at themacadmin.com> wrote:

Ok, I was under the impression that the reason /tmp couldn't be deployed to is because of the exclusion list in Composer.  Perhaps I was mistaken or there is a bug.

What I have done that works is to create a folder in /Library for such purposes.

I typically name it /Library/NameOfCompany and populate it with any files or folders that I need to use for deployment or management.

You should be able to deploy the installer to /Library/NameOfCompany/Adobe, and then call it with a script.  However, I believe someone on this thread mentioned that this particular update won't take the -silent switch.  Perhaps some UI scripting can get around this limitation?

My next question is why do you have to deploy this Installer from Adobe?  Why not take a Composer snapshot, run the update and package the changes (including undoing any Adobe "repairs" you don't like)?

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On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Nichols, Jared <jared.nichols at ll.mit.edu> wrote:
My exclusion list is empty

j



On 12/8/08 12:50 , "Miles Leacy" <miles.leacy at themacadmin.com <http://miles.leacy@themacadmin.com> > wrote:

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 <http://jared.nichols@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 <http://william.smith@merrillcorp.com>  <http://william.smith@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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