Adobe Reader download install script no longer working

[ooshnoo]

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.

[dennisnardi]

I saw a post in the Macadmins Slack about this, and someone posted the script below, and it seems to work:

#!/bin/bash


SCRIPT=$( basename "${0}" )


##setParams
properName="Adobe Acrobat DC"                 ## Edit this to change the name that appears log output
installerString="AcroRdrDC"                   ## Name (or part of) of pkg filename
appPath="/Applications/Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.app"       ## Install location
installType="PKG"                     ## Just for reference
fileType="dmg"                            
URL=$( curl --silent --fail -H "Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin" -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br" -H "Accept-Language: en-US;q=0.9,en;q=0.8" -H "DNT: 1" -H "Sec-Fetch-Mode: cors" -H "X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest" -H "Referer: https://get.adobe.com/reader/enterprise/" -H "Accept: */*" "https://get.adobe.com/reader/webservices/json/standalone/?platform_type=Macintosh&platform_dist=OSX&platform_arch=x86-32&language=English&eventname=readerotherversions" | grep -Eo '"download_url":.*?[^\]",' | head -n 1 | cut -d " -f 4 )
evalFunc=$( curl --silent --fail -H "Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin" -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br" -H "Accept-Language: en-US;q=0.9,en;q=0.8" -H "DNT: 1" -H "Sec-Fetch-Mode: cors" -H "X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest" -H "Referer: https://get.adobe.com/reader/enterprise/" -H "Accept: */*" "https://get.adobe.com/reader/webservices/json/standalone/?platform_type=Macintosh&platform_dist=OSX&platform_arch=x86-32&language=Dutchh&eventname=readerotherversions" | grep -Eo '"Version":.*?[^\]",' | head -n 1 | cut -d " -f 4 )
curlFlag="-L"
CFVers="CFBundleVersion"


## Start Functions

function ScriptLogging () {
    echo "[$SCRIPT] [$(date +"%Y-%m-%d %T")] " "$1" 
}


function getCurrVers () {

## Description: This function is called to get current version and download URL

echo "[Stage ${StepNum}]: Determining current version of ${properName}..."

currVers="${evalFunc}"

if [[ ! -z "${currVers}" ]]; then
    echo "DEBUG: current version of ${properName} found was: $currVers"

    ## If we pulled back a current version, get the download location
    download_url="${URL}"

    ## Check the URL to make sure its valid
    curl -sfI "$download_url" 2>&1 > /dev/null
    last_exit=$?

    if [[ "$last_exit" == "0" ]]; then
            ## Get Installed version
            getinstVersion
    else
        echo "There was a problem getting the download information."
        dlError
    fi
else
    ## Else on error, run the getVersErr function
    getVersErr
fi
}


function getinstVersion () {

## Description: This function is called to get the installed application/plug-in version on disk.

let StepNum=$StepNum+1
echo "[Stage ${StepNum}]: Determining installed version of ${properName}..."

if [[ -e "${appPath}" ]]; then
    instVers=$( defaults read "${appPath}/Contents/Info.plist" ${CFVers} 2>/dev/null)

    if [[ ! -z "$instVers" ]]; then
        echo " Found version ${instVers} for ${properName}"
        compareVers
    fi
else
    instVers="0"
    notInstalled
fi
}


function compareVers () {

let StepNum=$StepNum+1
echo "[Stage ${StepNum}]: Determining newer version of ${properName}..."

## Print back the actual version strings and the integer comparison strings
echo " Current version of ${properName}:   ${currVers}"
echo " Installed version of ${properName}:     ${instVers}"

## Build 2 new arrays from captured current and installed versions
IFS=. CURRVERS=(${currVers##})
IFS=. INSTVERS=(${instVers##})

## See if they contain the same number of indices
if [[ "${#CURRVERS[@]}" == "${#INSTVERS[@]}" ]]; then

    ## Set a default state condition
    state="SAME"

    ## Loop over each index in each array and compare the numbers
    for ((i=0;i<${#CURRVERS[@]};i++)); do
        if [[ $((10#${CURRVERS[$i]})) -gt $((10#${INSTVERS[$i]})) ]]; then
            state="NEW"
            break
        elif [[ $((10#${CURRVERS[$i]})) -lt $((10#${INSTVERS[$i]})) ]]; then
            state="OLDER"
            break
        else
            continue
        fi
    done
else
    ## If the numbers of indices do not match, run an alternate version comparison algorithm
    echo "Not the same number of indices. Using alternate version comparison..."

    ## Strip the version strings down to pure numbers
    instVers_Int=$( echo "${instVers}" | tr -cd [:digit:] )
    currVers_Int=$( echo "${currVers}" | tr -cd [:digit:] )

    ## Determine which integer string is the longest and assign its character length as a length variable
    ## Modify the shorter integer string to match the length of the longer integer by adding 0's and cut to the same length
    if [ "${#instVers_Int}" -gt "${#currVers_Int}" ]; then
        length="${#instVers_Int}"
        currVers_N=$( printf "%s%0${length}d
" $(echo "${currVers_Int}") | cut -c -${length} )
        instVers_N="${instVers_Int}"
    elif [ "${#currVers_Int}" -gt "${#instVers_Int}" ]; then
        length="${#currVers_Int}"
        instVers_N=$( printf "%s%0${length}d
" $(echo "${instVers_Int}") | cut -c -${length} )
        currVers_N="${currVers_Int}"
    elif [ "${#instVers_Int}" -eq "${#currVers_Int}" ]; then
        instVers_N="${instVers_Int}"
        currVers_N="${currVers_Int}"
    fi

    ## Determine the proper state to set the version comparison to
    if [ "${currVers_N}" -gt "${instVers_N}" ]; then
        state="NEW"
    fi

    if [ "${currVers_N}" -eq "${instVers_N}" ]; then
        state="SAME"
    fi

    if [ "${currVers_N}" -lt "${instVers_N}" ]; then
        state="OLDER"
    fi
fi

unset IFS

## Upon exit, we should have a 'state' set we can take the appropriate action on
if [ "$state" == "NEW" ]; then
    echo "[Stage ${StepNum} Result]: Version ${currVers} is newer than the installed version, ${instVers}"
    ## Run the download latest function
    echo "Downloading latest version"
    dlLatest
elif [ "$state" == "SAME" ]; then
    ## Run the up to date function
    upToDate

elif [ "$state" == "OLDER" ]; then
    echo "[Stage ${StepNum} Result]: The installed version (${instVers}) is newer"

    ## Run the newerInstalled function
    newerInstalled
fi
}


function dlLatest () {

## Description: This function is used to download the current, or latest version of the specified product.
## This function gets the download_url string passed to it and uses curl to pull down the update into
## the "/Library/Application Support/ITUpdater/Downloads/" directory

let StepNum=$StepNum+1

if [[ "$updateMode" == "" ]]; then
    updateMode="update"
fi

curl -sf $curlFlag "${download_url}" -o "/Library/Application Support/ITUpdater/Downloads/${properName}_${currVers}.${fileType}"


if [[ -e "/Library/Application Support/ITUpdater/Downloads/${properName}_${currVers}.${fileType}" ]]; then
    echo " Download of ${properName}_${currVers}.${fileType} was successful"
    installPKGUpdate
else
        echo " Download of ${properName}_${currVers}.${fileType} failed. Exiting..."
        exit 1
fi
}


function installPKGUpdate ()
{

## Description: This function is called when the specified app is in a package install format and SelfService is not set.
## It first mounts the disk image, gets the volume name, then proceeds with the installation.

let StepNum=$StepNum+1
echo "[Stage ${StepNum}]: Silently mounting the ${properName} disk image..."

updateVolName=$( /usr/bin/hdiutil attach "/Library/Application Support/ITUpdater/Downloads/${properName}_${currVers}.${fileType}" -nobrowse -noverify -noautoopen 2>&1 | awk -F'[	]' '//Volumes/{ print $NF }' )

if [[ "$?" == "0" ]]; then
    ## Get the package name in the mounted disk image
    updatePKGName=$( ls "$updateVolName" | egrep ".pkg$|.mpkg$" | grep -i "${installerString}" )

    if [[ ! -z "${updatePKGName}" ]]; then
        echo " A package was located in the mounted volume. Getting package details..."

        sleep 1

        echo "Installing the ${properName} pkg update..."


        ## Install the pkg while reading output from installer
        ## Check for the successful upgrade line to set the installation status
        installStatus=1
        while read line; do
            if [[ $( echo "$line" | egrep "The upgrade was successful|The install was successful" ) ]]; then
                installStatus=0
            fi
            done < <(/usr/sbin/installer -pkg "${updateVolName}/${updatePKGName}" -tgt / -allowUntrusted -verboseR 2>&1)

        ## Pause 1 second to allow installation to finish out
        sleep 1

        ## Unmount the volume (use -force flag in case of locked files)
        hdiutil detach "${updateVolName}" -force

        ## Now check the installation results
        if [[ "$installStatus" == "0" ]]; then
            ## Get the new version number
            getNewVers
        else
            ## If we didn't get a status 0 returned from the installation, exit with an error code
            echo "Installation exited with an error code. Install failed..."
            exit_status=1

            cleanUpAction_Failure
        fi
    else
        echo "Could not locate the package in the mounted volume. There was a problem."
        exit_status=2

        cleanUpAction_Failure
    fi
else
    echo "Mounting of the disk image failed. Exit"
    exit_status=3

    cleanUpAction_Failure
fi
}


function getNewVers () {

## Description: This function is called at the end of an installation to check the new version number
## to ensure it is what we expect. The function will call another function based on success or failure results.

let StepNum=$StepNum+1

## Get the new version number from disk to ensure it matches the expected current version
updatedVers=$( /usr/bin/defaults read "${appPath}/Contents/Info.plist" ${CFVers} )

if [[ "${multiInstallString}" == "firefox" ]]; then
    currVers=$(echo "${currVers}" |  tr -cd '[[:digit:]]._-')
fi

## If the assigned application has a versProcessor var assigned, run it to generate a modified version string
if [ ! -z "$versProcessor" ]; then
    updatedVers=$( eval echo "$updatedVers" | $versProcessor )
fi

## Create 2 new arrays from captured current and updated versions
IFS=. CURRVERS=(${currVers##})
IFS=. UPDVERS=(${updatedVers##})

## See if they contain the same number of indices
if [[ "${#CURRVERS[@]}" == "${#UPDVERS[@]}" ]]; then

    ## Set a default poststate condition
    poststate="SUCCESS"

    ## Loop over each index in each array and compare the numbers
    for ((i=0;i<${#CURRVERS[@]};i++)); do
        if [[ "${CURRVERS[i]}" -gt "${UPDVERS[i]}" ]]; then
            poststate="FAILED"
            break
        elif [[ "${CURRVERS[i]}" -lt "${UPDVERS[i]}" ]]; then
            poststate="SUCCESS"
            break
        else
            continue
        fi
    done
else
    ## If the numbers of indices do not match, run an alternate version comparison algorithm
    echo "Not the same number of indices. Using alternate version comparison..."

    ## Strip the version strings down to pure numbers
    updatedVers_Int=$( echo "${updatedVers}" | tr -cd [:digit:] )
    currVers_Int=$( echo "${currVers}" | tr -cd [:digit:] )

    ## Determine which integer string is the longest and assign its character length as a length variable
    ## Modify the shorter integer string to match the length of the longer integer by adding 0's and cut to the same length
    if [ "${#updatedVers_Int}" -gt "${#currVers_Int}" ]; then
        length="${#updatedVers_Int}"
        currVers_N=$( printf "%s%0${length}d
" $(echo "${currVers_Int}") | cut -c -${length} )
        updatedVers_N="${updatedVers_Int}"
    elif [ "${#currVers_Int}" -gt "${#updatedVers_Int}" ]; then
        length="${#currVers_Int}"
        updatedVers_N=$( printf "%s%0${length}d
" $(echo "${updatedVers_Int}") | cut -c -${length} )
        currVers_N="${currVers_Int}"
    elif [ "${#updatedVers_Int}" -eq "${#currVers_Int}" ]; then
        updatedVers_N="${updatedVers_Int}"
        currVers_N="${currVers_Int}"
    fi

    ## Determine the proper state to set the version comparison to
    if [ "${currVers_N}" -gt "${updatedVers_N}" ]; then
        echo "[Stage ${StepNum} Result]: Version ${currVers} is newer than the installed version, ${updatedVers}"

        poststate="FAILED"
    fi

    if [ "${currVers_N}" -eq "${updatedVers_N}" ]; then
        echo "[Stage ${StepNum} Result]: The installed version (${instVers}) is current"

        poststate="SUCCESS"
    fi

    if [ "${currVers_N}" -lt "${updatedVers_N}" ]; then
        echo "[Stage ${StepNum} Result]: The installed version (${instVers}) is newer"

        poststate="SUCCESS"
    fi
fi

unset IFS

if [ "$poststate" == "SUCCESS" ]; then
    echo "[Stage ${StepNum}]: Confirmed the new version of ${properName} on disk is now ${updatedVers}..."
    rm -f "/Library/Application Support/ITUpdater/Downloads/${properName}_${currVers}.${fileType}"

    cleanUpAction_Success
fi

if [ "$poststate" == "FAILED" ]; then
    echo "[Stage ${StepNum}]: New version was not updated to equal or greater than ${currVers}. Installation may have failed..."
    rm -f "/Library/Application Support/ITUpdater/Downloads/${properName}_${currVers}.${fileType}"

    cleanUpAction_Failure
fi
}


function cleanUpAction_Success () {

## Description: This function runs on a successful installation of the app or package.
if [ "$updateMode" == "update" ]; then
    echo "[Final Result}]: ${properName} update installation was successful."
elif [ "$updateMode" == "new" ]; then
    echo "[Final Result]: ${properName} installation was successful."
fi

rm -Rf /Library/Application Support/ITUpdater/Downloads/*
rm -f "/Library/Application Support/ITUpdater/NoQuit.xml" 2>/dev/null
}


function upToDate () {
## Description: This function is called when the application/plug-in is already up to the current version.
echo -e "[Final Result]: No new version of ${properName} is available for this Mac.
"
}


function newerInstalled () {
## Description: This function is called when the installed application appears newer than the current version.
echo -e "[Final Result]: The installed version of ${properName} (${instVers}) is already newer than the current release located ($currVers).
"
}


function notInstalled () {

## Description: This function is called when the target application or plug-in is not installed or not found on the client system
echo " ${properName} is not installed, or was not found on this system"       ##Edited line

updateMode="new"
dlLatest
}


function dlError () {

## Description: This function is called when it was not possible to obtain the correct download location for the application or plug-in.
## It displays this to the end user in a dialog if SelfService mode is enabled.

echo "Could not determine download location for ${properName}"
exit 1
}


function getVersErr () {

## Description: This function is called if we aren't able to gather current version information on the app/plug-in.
## Since the cause of the error can be because the OS is incompatible, or (more rarely) because no active internet connection
## we attempt to check for an active internet connection first, and display appropriate messaging based on the results.

## Check to make sure we have an active internet connection first
curl --connect-timeout 4 --max-time 4 -sfI http://google.com 2>&1 > /dev/null

if [[ "$?" == "0" ]]; then
    echo -e "We have internet access, but couldn't pull version information for ${properName}.
"
else
    echo -e "Somehow there is no active internet connection on this Mac.
"
fi
exit 1
}


function cleanUpAction_Failure () {

## Description: This function runs on a failed installation of the app or package.

## Delete the downloaded disk image from /Library/Application Support/ITUpdater/Downloads/
echo "Deleting downloaded disk image..."
rm -f "/Library/Application Support/ITUpdater/Downloads/${properName}_${currVers}.${fileType}"
echo "Installation failure for ${properName} ${currVers}. Exiting..."
exit 1

}


## Start Script

## Create the necessary folder structure for downloads if not present
if [ ! -d "/Library/Application Support/ITUpdater/Downloads/" ]; then
    mkdir -p "/Library/Application Support/ITUpdater/Downloads/"
    chmod -R 775 "/Library/Application Support/ITUpdater"
fi

if [ ! -d "/Library/Application Support/ITUpdater/Reminders/" ]; then
    mkdir -p "/Library/Application Support/ITUpdater/Reminders/"
fi


StepNum=1
getCurrVers

[ooshnoo]

Thanks @dennisnardi Works perfectly!!!!

[xtian]

Get it here : https://www.jamf.com/jamf-nation/third-party-products/files/1058/acrobat-reader-dc-updater-nov-2020link text

[rseeley]

@dennisnardi Thanks! also did the trick for me

[ooshnoo]

Looks like it's not working again... Anyone know a fix???

Script result: Latest Version is: 21.001.20142
Adobe Reader DC is not installed
ARCurrVersNormalized: 2100120142
Latest version of the URL is: http://ardownload2.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/mac/AcrobatDC/2100120142/AcroRdrDC_2100120142_MUI.dmg
2021-03-05 06:39:00.248 defaults[2449:13574] 
The domain/default pair of (/Applications/Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.app/Contents/Info, CFBundleShortVersionString) does not exist

[JminD]

Is there an update for this? I've tried a few different scripts but nothing seems to be working as of a month or so ago now.

Latest one I tried was

!/bin/sh

#########################################################################################

# ABOUT THIS PROGRAM

NAME

AdobeReaderUpdate.sh -- Installs or updates Adobe Acrobat Reader DC

SYNOPSIS

sudo AdobeReaderUpdate.sh

########################################################################################

# HISTORY

Version: 1.1

- v.1.0 Joe Farage, 23.01.2015

- v.1.1 Joe Farage, 08.04.2015 : support for new Adobe Acrobat Reader DC

- v.1.2 Chris Mariano, 11.11.2020 : Updated Lastest version capture website

########################################################################################

Script to download and install Adobe Reader.

Only works on Intel systems.

dmgfile="reader.dmg"
logfile="/tmp/AdobeReaderDCUpdateScript.log"

Are we running on Intel?

if [ '/usr/bin/uname -p'="i386" -o '/usr/bin/uname -p'="x86_64" ]; then ## Get OS version and adjust for use with the URL string OSvers_URL=$( sw_vers -productVersion | sed 's/[.]/_/g' )

## Set the User Agent string for use with curl userAgent="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X ${OSvers_URL}) AppleWebKit/535.6.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.2 Safari/535.6.2"

# Get the latest version of Reader available from Adobe's About Reader page. latestver=`` while [ -z "$latestver" ] do latestver=/usr/bin/curl -s -L -A "$userAgent" https://armmf.adobe.com/arm-manifests/mac/AcrobatDC/reader/current_version.txt done

echo "Latest Version is: $latestver" latestvernorm=echo ${latestver} # Get the version number of the currently-installed Adobe Reader, if any. if [ -e "/Applications/Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.app" ]; then currentinstalledver=/usr/bin/defaults read /Applications/Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.app/Contents/Info CFBundleShortVersionString echo "Current installed version is: $currentinstalledver" if [ ${latestvernorm} = ${currentinstalledver} ]; then echo "Adobe Reader DC is current. Exiting" exit 0 fi else currentinstalledver="none" echo "Adobe Reader DC is not installed" fi

ARCurrVersNormalized=$( echo $latestver | sed -e 's/[.]//g' ) echo "ARCurrVersNormalized: $ARCurrVersNormalized" url="" url1="http://ardownload2.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/mac/AcrobatDC/${ARCurrVersNormalized}/AcroRdrDC_${ARCurrVersNormalized}_MUI.dmg" url2=""

#Build URL url=echo "${url1}${url2}" echo "Latest version of the URL is: $url"

# Compare the two versions, if they are different or Adobe Reader is not present then download and install the new version. if [ "${currentinstalledver}" != "${latestvernorm}" ]; then /bin/echo "date: Current Reader DC version: ${currentinstalledver}" >> ${logfile} /bin/echo "date: Available Reader DC version: ${latestver} => ${latestvernorm}" >> ${logfile} /bin/echo "date: Downloading newer version." >> ${logfile} /usr/bin/curl -s -o /tmp/reader.dmg ${url} /bin/echo "date: Mounting installer disk image." >> ${logfile} /usr/bin/hdiutil attach /tmp/reader.dmg -nobrowse -quiet /bin/echo "date: Installing..." >> ${logfile} /usr/sbin/installer -pkg /Volumes/AcroRdrDC_${ARCurrVersNormalized}MUI/AcroRdrDC${ARCurrVersNormalized}_MUI.pkg -target / > /dev/null

/bin/sleep 10 /bin/echo "date: Unmounting installer disk image." >> ${logfile} /usr/bin/hdiutil detach $(/bin/df | /usr/bin/grep Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Installer | awk '{print $1}') -quiet /bin/sleep 10 /bin/echo "date: Deleting disk image." >> ${logfile} /bin/rm /tmp/${dmgfile}

#double check to see if the new version got updated newlyinstalledver=/usr/bin/defaults read /Applications/Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.app/Contents/Info CFBundleShortVersionString if [ "${latestvernorm}" = "${newlyinstalledver}" ]; then /bin/echo "date: SUCCESS: Adobe Reader has been updated to version ${newlyinstalledver}" >> ${logfile} # /Library/Application Support/JAMF/bin/jamfHelper.app/Contents/MacOS/jamfHelper -windowType hud -title "Adobe Reader Updated" -description "Adobe Reader has been updated." & else /bin/echo "date: ERROR: Adobe Reader update unsuccessful, version remains at ${currentinstalledver}." >> ${logfile} /bin/echo "--" >> ${logfile} exit 1 fi

# If Adobe Reader is up to date already, just log it and exit. else /bin/echo "date: Adobe Reader is already up to date, running ${currentinstalledver}." >> ${logfile} /bin/echo "--" >> ${logfile} fi else /bin/echo "date: ERROR: This script is for Intel Macs only." >> ${logfile}
fi

exit 0

[cbrewer]

Not sure about the scripts already posted here, but I have an AdobeAcrobatReader Install script that seems to still work fine. Feel free to use or compare.

script

[dulban]

Your script worked for me too.  Thank you.

[jonlju]

@cbrewer Unfortunately the one you linked to doesn't seem to work either. We used the one @JminD posted but that seems to have stopped working in late february/early march. I've only tried it on Big Sur on Intel Macs.

[jonlju]

I checked this again, it seems that when the script goes to check for what version is the latest, it will find 21.001.20149 (on https://armmf.adobe.com/arm-manifests/mac/AcrobatDC/acrobat/current_version.txt), however, the link to download it doesn't seem to work: https://ardownload2.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/mac/AcrobatDC/2100120149/AcroRdrDC_2100120149_MUI.dmg

If you go for version 21.001.20145 instead, it does work because the link is there: https://ardownload2.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/mac/AcrobatDC/2100120145/AcroRdrDC_2100120145_MUI.dmg

For now, I'm using another "universal installer" script and hardcoding the link above to make this work. If you go to manually install Acrobat DC it is the .20145 version that it downloads anyway.

[jgonitzke]

I figured out why the script is no longer working. Version 2100120149 is an update only. It's not a full install. Also the file name for it is AcroRdrDCUpd2100120149_MUI.dmg so the script can't find it. So I modified the script to see what happens, it will download the the 0149 version then fail out, it is because it's an update only, so it is looking for the version to update. Thanks Adobe for breaking this. Here is a link link text to where you can see the info about the 149 version.

[cbrewer]

Here is a somewhat messier way to get the current version. This uses the version number from the actual download page instead of the current_version file.

curl -LSs "https://get.adobe.com/reader" | grep "id="buttonDownload1"" | awk -F '?installer=' '{print $NF}' | awk -F "Reader_DC" '{print $NF}' | awk -F "_" '{print $2}' | sed 's/.//g' | tail -c 11

[user-GrPjVHeeWD]

Has anyone got a working script?

[kik0]

Found this by cwmcbrewster and it worked for me! But I'm also brand new to jamf ><; https://github.com/cwmcbrewster/Adobe/blob/2ef9ff18550bc512178e9ba96b996698969f00e0/Install_AdobeAcr...

[daniel_ross]

This worked flawlessly for us @kik0 and thank you for the share!

[ManOfTheNight]

This stopped working for us - again. Getting an error message:

Current version does not appear to match the 10 digit format expected

Got it functioning again with the previous way of getting the version number:

currentVersion=$(curl -LSs "https://armmf.adobe.com/arm-manifests/mac/AcrobatDC/acrobat/current_version.txt" | sed 's/\.//g')

I'm not quite familiar with scripting - just using what's at hand.

I felt obligated to create an account and share this with you, as you've helped me enormous ways previously with your multiple posts. Keep up the good work!

[SMR1]

The script installed adobe on one of our Mac's, but the other one, it got the error "Current version does not appear to match the 10 digit format expected".  The script has the above change in it. Should this also update the current version?

[cbrewer]

Try the current version of the script.

https://github.com/cwmcbrewster/Adobe/blob/main/Install_AdobeAcrobatReaderDC.sh 

[Éric]

.

[SMR1]

That's the one I'm testing out. It worked on my device, but the other 2 I tested on came back with the 10 digit error. We're just in the process of getting Jamf all setup and trying to get the updates in order. I think the problem might be that the initial install failed and kept some residual files on those devices. When we first added adobe we used installomator to deploy, but that kept failing.

[ccsshelpdesk]

I had an old script that was updating but failing so decided to use the script above as a test HERE

I was also getting the same issue, it was installing but not reporting back, and also my smart group was not reporting correctly.

Its down to Adobe have changed the app name from Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.app to Adobe Acrobat Reader.app

Once i changed my smart group and the script line from appName="Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.app" to appName="Adobe Acrobat Reader.app"

All is now working again.

Just thought i would post my findings.

[cbrewer]

Fixed. Thanks.

[SMR1]

I've been testing the script and it's worked on a few devices, but on the majority I'm getting the below message. I did change the app name to remove DC.

Script result: Current version: 2200320258
Adobe Acrobat Reader.app not installed
Starting download
AdobeReader not currently running
Temp dir set to /var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n0000000000000/T/tmp.K3CMGKL1
Download successful
Failed to mount DMG
Removed file

[SMR1]

Looks like our issue is when we run the policy on the network or the VPN. Off our network, the update goes through just fine.

[AndyACS]

Please check out the Installomator https://github.com/Installomator/Installomator

[softpaw87]

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