[Casper] CS4 Install

[Ted August]

Thanks for the tip Ryan.  I was really hoping to avoid the CS4  
Deployment Toolkit, but it looks more and more like I'm going to be  
forced to.

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Ted August
Salve Regina University

On Mar 17, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Ryan Harter wrote:

> 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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