[Casper] CS4 Install

[Ryan Harter]

I have got Adobe CS4 working as a Self Service Policy (which means I  
can deploy it by any other means as well).

I copied everything off of the DVDs (individually for each app) to "/ 
Library/Application Support/UWSP/" and then used the Adobe Deployment  
Toolkit, which I agree is substandard, to create the xml files, saving  
them along with the files in that directory.  I had toyed around with  
putting stuff in /tmp but this caused some problems with Casper.

Anyway, I then wrote a script like so:

#!/bin/bash

## Adobe Photoshop CS4 Installer Script
#    Written by Ryan Harter, 09-01-2009

"/Library/Application Support/UWSP/Adobe Photoshop CS4/ 
AdobeUberInstaller"

rm -r "/Library/Application Support/UWSP/Adobe Photoshop CS4"

exit 0

It's not very robust and does no checking, but I haven't had any  
problems with it so far.

Then all you have to do is set the script to run after and make sure  
the package is installed before it runs.

Note:  There is also an uninstall script like so:

#!/bin/bash

## Adobe Photoshop CS4 Uninstaller Script
#    Written by Ryan Harter, 09-01-2009

"/Library/Application Support/UWSP/Adobe Photoshop CS4/ 
AdobeUberUninstaller"

rm -r "/Library/Application Support/UWSP/Adobe Photoshop CS4"

exit 0

As you can see, I've been using these since the 9th of January without  
any problem, granted we're just letting out Art faculty test it out  
now so my install base is only about 15.

I prefer this to the packaging approach because the installer handles  
the licensing so my better, IMHO.

Ryan Harter
UW - Stevens Point
Workstation Developer
715.346.2716
Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu

On Mar 17, 2009, at 9:10 AM, Ted August wrote:

> On Mar 14, 2009, at 11:27 AM, Michael Curtis wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a bit of a weird one. I am trying to make my own CS4 install
>> packages. I install Master Collection and then removed all the
>> applications from the package, leaving a "core" install. I then
>> dragged the applications from the suite to Composer v7 making
>> individual dmg packages for each application. That worked fine except
>> Encore doesn't remember it was in the Applications Folder. When I  
>> push
>> the package back out it puts in on the root of the boot drive. Also,
>> if I look for the diff files in Composer their aren't any. All the
>> other application do. Anyone else seen this?
>>
>
> I hate answering questions with questions - but this is very close to
> the topic at hand so I thought I would keep it in the same thread.
>
> Has anyone here on the Casper list actually created a successful Adobe
> Creative Suite 4 (any version) package with Composer?  I've been
> googling the last couple of days, and checking a few of my other
> mailing lists, and it doesn't sound like there has been success yet.
> I know it was mentioned in January that someone used the Adobe
> Deployment Toolkit, but I find that piece of software unacceptable
> (and I've let Adobe know!).
>
> Does anyone have a workflow they can share for installing Adobe CS4
> with success using Casper/Composer that doesn't involve the deployment
> toolkit?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- 
> Ted August
> Salve

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