Adobe Acrobat X Pro update from terminal

[tkimpton]

Does anyone know if it is possible to launch the Acrobat updater from terminal or a script?

I am trying to see if it is possible to script this and have it in Self Service so that standard (non-admin) users can just run it to make my life easier.

At the moment i am not having any success.

Jody any chance of making Acrobat easier to manage?

[ScottyBeach]

Tim:
Can you use Adobe Application Manager Enterprise Edition to create an updater .pkg that can be made available to Self Serve?
- Scott

[donmontalvo]

@ScottyBeach Not for Acrobat...yet... :(

http://forums.adobe.com/community/download_install_setup/creative_suite_enterprise_deployment

[gregneagle]

Acrobat 10 updates are in Apple package format. Can you not just install them as-is using Casper and/or make them available via Self Service?

I guess I don't see what the issue is.

[donmontalvo]

I think the OP wants some of that Adobe RUM...

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/aameetools.html

http://labsdownload.adobe.com/pub/labs/aameetools/aameetools_rum_docs.pdf

Unfortunately...

NOTE: Codename Remote Update Manager is only for a subsection of Adobe Desktop products. It can not be used for browser plug-ins such as Flash Player and for Adobe Reader, Acrobat Professional, and Adobe AIR application updates.

[tkimpton]

That's Greg and Don. I'm using RUM for CS6 and it does work a treat. I don't want to do down the road of moving the Updater.plugin within the again to prevent those annoting update prompts and don't want to go on a mission of a policy with smart groups and uploading the latest Acrobat.pkg update all the time to the JSS. One day may Acrobat can get updates from AUSST and RUM can update.

[timsutton · Accepted solution]

As Greg mentioned, the installer is a standard package requiring no modifications.

If you would like to disable updates, I'm using the following preferences to suppress updates, the offer to "own" (read: associate) PDFs, and to accept the EULA:

https://gist.github.com/2943115

This plist will be ignored if it's in /Library/Preferences, and I've never tried using Local MCX to push these preferences. I'm not familiar with Casper, but if there's a mechanism to apply these keys to a user's plist, then that should work.

[tkimpton]

Thanks Tim great call on supression with the plist :)