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Adobe Reader download install script no longer working

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
October 30, 2020
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ooshnoo
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Hey folks...

Been using the Adobe Reader download and install script for many months now without issue and as of last week it seems to be broken.

Adobe must have changed something on their site and now the script is just thrown in to continuous loop when running the CURL command.

I've tried the following scripts and they're all broken.

https://www.jamf.com/jamf-nation/third-party-products/files/1043/acrobat-reader-dc-updater

https://github.com/PhillyPhoto/JAMF-Scripts/blob/master/Adobe-Products/AdobeReaderUpdate.sh

https://github.com/jamf/Jamf-Nation-Scripts/blob/master/AdobeReaderUpdate.sh

Does anyone have a fix???? We'd rather not deploy a package installer as Adobe updates it so often.

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softpaw87
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Forum|Forum|2 years ago
April 3, 2023

Great reccomendation

After analyzing the script Installomator uses. Gotta say, it's very clever. Essentially, it sequentially checks each download link from newest to oldest and grabs the newest link that returns 200 (i.e. it exists).
You may not install the newest version, but at least it will install a somewhat recent version that can be updated to the latest version.
Here is that section of code, for anyone interested:

versions=( $( curl -s https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/ReleaseNotesDC/index.html | grep -Eo "[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+"| head -n 30) )
    local version
    for version in $versions; do
        version="${version//.}"
        local httpstatus=$(curl -X HEAD -s "https://ardownload2.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/mac/AcrobatDC/${version}/AcroRdrDC_${version}_MUI.dmg" --write-out "%{http_code}")
        if [[ "${httpstatus}" == "200" ]]; then
            downloadURL="https://ardownload2.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/mac/AcrobatDC/${version}/AcroRdrDC_${version}_MUI.dmg"
            unset httpstatus
            break
        fi
    done

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