If you mean register your license with Adobe, I don't see how. We download our software thru our enterprise license, and they do not require registering. I believe these steps only allow silent installation and suppressing the Adobe login dialog box to our users.
I'm assuming you have a consumer purchase of PSE12 and this would probably not work in Casper in this manner.

@ronb @freddie.cox Thanks for the helpful posts! Took me a second to realize I also needed specify the path to the prov.xml file but everything works great.

ronb and freddie you two rock.
Has anyone had luck locking in the region/country selection during this deployment? I know i could do it after install via casper, just dump the setting files into the user folder after install. But that's an ugly solution. These are lab deployed with multiple clients logging in & out. So far i've built off the previous scrips

#!/bin/bash

# Install Adobe Photoshop Elements Silently
/Library/HoldingRoom/Elements12/Install.app/Contents/MacOS/Install --mode=silent --deploymentFile=/Library/HoldingRoom/Elements12/deploy/en_US/install.xml

# Activate with Volume License and disable adobe sign in prompt/eula with the earlier generated prov.xml.
/usr/sbin/adobe_prtk --tool=VolumeSerialize --stream

# You have to run this again to actually get the activation to work, why I don't know.
/usr/sbin/adobe_prtk --tool=UpdateSuppress --leid="V7{}PremiereElements-EMT12-Mac-GM"
/usr/sbin/adobe_prtk --tool=VolumeSerialize

#After install is complete these files will be removed.
#rm -R /Library/HoldingRoom
#rm /usr/sbin/adobe_prtk
#rm /usr/sbin/prov.xml

#For creating the prov.xml. To be run separately, this was just a good place to store it so i dont forget.
#--tool=VolumeSerialize --generate --serial="####-####-ect" --leid="V7{}PremiereElements-EMT12-Mac-GM" --regsuppress=ss --eulasuppress --eulaaccept --locale=244

that local=244 was one of many attempts in this process. From documentation i've found off old versions and forums online. Country code US=244, Language code en=1033. This is provided they hold true from the versions they applied too (doubtful) and cross platform. I have tried to use the adobe_prtk to accomplish this during the silent setup (an full list of --tool's may be helpful adobe!). And through an application.xml.override file in the instal step. If there is a way to do this during the silent instal process i cant for the life of me find the even the variable name for it.

Any thoughts the group here has would be greatly appreciated!

Thank!

Try Creative Cloud Packager instead of AAMEE.

I am constantly getting Return Code = 19, when i look it up it refers to the provfile being bad.

/Volumes/data/Adobe Photoshop Elements 12/Install.app/Contents/MacOS/Install --mode=silent --deploymentFile=/Volumes/data/Adobe Photoshop Elements 12/deploy/AdobePhotoshopElements12en_US.install.xml

/usr/sbin/adobe_prtk --tool=VolumeSerialize --generate --serial=xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx --leid="V7{}PhotoshopElements-EMT12-Mac-GM" --regsuppress=ss

i am hesitant to turn thins into a shell script until i can actually get the commands to work....
so far it is not getting beyond this step, and returning the following error (i have been running the above commands as with the sudo prefix

bash-3.2$ sudo /usr/sbin/adobe_prtk --tool=VolumeSerialize --generate --serial=xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx --leid="V7{}PhotoshopElements-EMT12-Mac-GM" --regsuppress=as Copyright 2012 Adobe Systems Incorporated All rights reserved. Return Code = 19 bash-3.2$ sudo /usr/sbin/adobe_prtk --tool=VolumeSerialize Copyright 2012 Adobe Systems Incorporated All rights reserved. Return Code = 19 bash-3.2$

I have no idea at this point what i am doing wrong.

My understanding (which is obviously wrong, is that the first command installs the application (it works) the second command should build the prove.xml file (because none was stated) the third command will apply the prove.xml file that was created (because none was stated)

If i can just create the Prov.xml file, i think i should be able to deploy it and run that last command

Hello
I need to create a test package of Photoshop Elements 12. I have the source, the volume serial number and a Adobe ID (not for access to the Adobe licence server), BUT I don't have the adobe_prtk tool.

Can anybody provide me this tool or give me hint where to find it?

I have the CCPLauncher.app (Adobe Creative Cloud Packager) too, but I don't find this tool.

Thanks

Hans, Did you see the link from Freddie's message above? Did it work?

@ronb
Thanks! I've missed Freddie's link.

In the meantime I tried it with the Creative Cloud Packager and it worked. It downloaded the v12.1 source of Photoshop Elements and created a pkg. I think I need to use a cached DMG for this pkg, as we already did for our other Creative Cloud apps.

Maybe I don't need the adobe_prtk anymore with this approach.

Cool.
But now of course we'll have to see what Adobe has for us with Photoshop Elements 13!!!

Hey there

ngidzak had mentioned above that he was receiving a return code 19.

I am having the same issue he reported. I receive the Return Code = 19. Even though the prov.xml file was created in the earlier step. Did you ever figure out a fix? Any help would be very appreciated.

TheReal check that your using the correct version of adobe_prtk, I lost half a day trying to create that prov.xml only to find out the version i'd been using didn't match my version of Elements.

Hey thanks for the reply. I actually was able to get past the code = 19 last night. I did start with the wrong adobe_prtk tool though. I started with 5.5 and had to go up to 6. My issue was in my syntax. I originally just copied the code in the earlier posts:

/Library/HoldingRoom/adobe_prtk --tool=VolumeSerialize --provfile=prov.xml

That's what gave me the code 19. I had to put in the exact path to that prove.xml file to take. So mine ended up looking like:

/Library/HoldingRoom/adobe_prtk --tool=VolumeSerialize --provfile=/Library/HoldingRoom/prov.xml

Once I made that change I was good to go.

C.Long

Has anyone managed to get this to work for PSE13?