[Casper] CS4 Install

[Ernst, Craig S.]

Does by any other means include an install of it at FirstRun like CS3 does?

I have a "working" master collection image install, but it still has some issues. One of them being it will NOT run at FirstRun, only when someone is logged on and installed by Policy or Self Service. Another being that I'm still forced to repair Acrobat Pro 9 even after it JUST installed it. POS. And even though I've selected particular portions of the suite to just install in Casper Admin it still installs them all so I do some cleaning out with scripts after the fact. So a one step process becomes 6.

Casper Admin will also not recognize CS4 updaters, at least in their current form with 6.01. So I also have a traditional overlay package at the end that "patches" everything.

NOTE: My DMG that Casper Admin is using is the single DMG electronic download from Adobe that's been modified. I know that not everyone seems to have that option.

I'll have to take a look at what you have Ryan.

"We'll get the installer fixed in CS6"

Sure you will...*grumbles*. And that means it will be diferent for CS5 before then, too?

Suffice it to say there isn't a pretty way to do it, but it's possible. Written up work flow I don't have.

Craig Ernst
Systems Management and Configuration
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University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Learning and Technology Services
105 Garfield Ave
Eau Claire, WI 54701
Phone: (715) 836-3639
Fax: (715) 836-6001
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ernstcs at uwec.edu
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From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Ryan Harter [rharter at uwsp.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 9:51 AM
To: Ted August
Cc: casper at list.jamfsoftware.com
Subject: Re: [Casper] CS4 Install

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<mailto: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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