Difference between revisions of "Adobe CS4"
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Silent installer for Adobe CS4. | Silent installer for Adobe CS4. | ||
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| + | This is one of the worst installers I've ever seen - over-engineered, with dis-informative explanations of exit codes giving no clues whatsoever. | ||
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First, navigate to <code>Deployment Toolkit\Adobe CS4</code> directory and start <code>Setup.exe</code>. It will ask you where Adobe CS4 installer is located - point it to <code>disk1\Adobe CS4</code> directory. | First, navigate to <code>Deployment Toolkit\Adobe CS4</code> directory and start <code>Setup.exe</code>. It will ask you where Adobe CS4 installer is located - point it to <code>disk1\Adobe CS4</code> directory. | ||
| − | Answer any questions it might have, give your serial number - the program will produce <code>Adobe CS4</code> directory with 4 files - copy it somewhere to your deployment directory (i.e. to <code>%SOFTWARE%\adobecs4</code>): | + | Answer any questions it might have, give your serial number - the program will produce <code>Adobe CS4</code> directory with 4 files - copy it somewhere to your deployment directory (i.e. to <code>%SOFTWARE%\adobecs4</code>) - this will be your silent installer: |
* AdobeUberInstaller.exe | * AdobeUberInstaller.exe | ||
* AdobeUberUninstaller.exe | * AdobeUberUninstaller.exe | ||
* AdobeUberInstaller.xml | * AdobeUberInstaller.xml | ||
* AdobeUberUninstaller.xml | * AdobeUberUninstaller.xml | ||
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| + | If your installation media came on 4 CDs, you may feel unlucky. Some Adobe genius couldn't predict that most corporate deployments happen over network. So if you copy contents of these CD-ROMs somewhere to a network location, run Deployment Toolkit to create a silent installer, it will not work. Apparently, after installing programs from disk 1, silent installer will want to access disk 2. As it is a silent installer, it can't ask you to place a correct disk and will fail with a meaningless exit code, like: | ||
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| + | * Exit code: 6 Silent workflow completed with errors | ||
| + | * Exit code: 7 Unable to complete the silent workflow | ||
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| + | Who made an silent installer which will want to access different CD-ROMs is beyond my understanding. | ||
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| + | A workaround is to create a <code>Adobe CS4</code> directory and copy <code>payloads</code> and <code>extensions</code> directories from all CD-ROMs there (if there are files that already exist, just overwrite them - some content is duplicated among CD-ROMs), i.e. like that: | ||
| + | * Adobe CS4\payloads | ||
| + | * Adobe CS4\extensions | ||
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| + | Next, run the installer like this (<code>cs4-install.bat</code>): | ||
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| + | <source lang="dos"> | ||
| + | net use P: \\server\dfs\Admin\CS4 | ||
| + | "P:\Adobe CS4 installer\AdobeUberInstaller.exe" | ||
| + | net use /delete P: | ||
| + | echo | ||
| + | </source> | ||
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| + | Even with this, it may not work - depending on workstation's security settings, you may expect a pop-up Window asking "are you sure you want to run AdobeAir.exe" etc. | ||
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<check type="file" condition="exists" path="%PROGRAMFILES%\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CS4\InDesign.exe" /> | <check type="file" condition="exists" path="%PROGRAMFILES%\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CS4\InDesign.exe" /> | ||
| − | <install cmd='"%SOFTWARE%\adobecs4\ | + | <install cmd='"%SOFTWARE%\adobecs4\cs4-install.bat"' timeout="7200" /> |
| − | <upgrade cmd='"%SOFTWARE%\adobecs4\ | + | <upgrade cmd='"%SOFTWARE%\adobecs4\cs4-install.bat"' timeout="7200" /> |
| − | <remove cmd='"%SOFTWARE%\adobecs4\ | + | <remove cmd='"%SOFTWARE%\adobecs4\cs4-uninstall.bat"' /> |
</package> | </package> | ||
</source> | </source> | ||
Revision as of 09:51, 11 May 2009
Silent installer for Adobe CS4.
This is one of the worst installers I've ever seen - over-engineered, with dis-informative explanations of exit codes giving no clues whatsoever.
First, navigate to Deployment Toolkit\Adobe CS4 directory and start Setup.exe. It will ask you where Adobe CS4 installer is located - point it to disk1\Adobe CS4 directory.
Answer any questions it might have, give your serial number - the program will produce Adobe CS4 directory with 4 files - copy it somewhere to your deployment directory (i.e. to %SOFTWARE%\adobecs4) - this will be your silent installer:
- AdobeUberInstaller.exe
- AdobeUberUninstaller.exe
- AdobeUberInstaller.xml
- AdobeUberUninstaller.xml
If your installation media came on 4 CDs, you may feel unlucky. Some Adobe genius couldn't predict that most corporate deployments happen over network. So if you copy contents of these CD-ROMs somewhere to a network location, run Deployment Toolkit to create a silent installer, it will not work. Apparently, after installing programs from disk 1, silent installer will want to access disk 2. As it is a silent installer, it can't ask you to place a correct disk and will fail with a meaningless exit code, like:
- Exit code: 6 Silent workflow completed with errors
- Exit code: 7 Unable to complete the silent workflow
Who made an silent installer which will want to access different CD-ROMs is beyond my understanding.
A workaround is to create a Adobe CS4 directory and copy payloads and extensions directories from all CD-ROMs there (if there are files that already exist, just overwrite them - some content is duplicated among CD-ROMs), i.e. like that:
- Adobe CS4\payloads
- Adobe CS4\extensions
Next, run the installer like this (cs4-install.bat):
net use P: \\server\dfs\Admin\CS4
"P:\Adobe CS4 installer\AdobeUberInstaller.exe"
net use /delete P:
echo
Even with this, it may not work - depending on workstation's security settings, you may expect a pop-up Window asking "are you sure you want to run AdobeAir.exe" etc.
Note that CS4 is a lot of software and the whole installation process may take 1-2 hours to complete, so increasing the timeout for installation (to 7200; default is 3600 seconds) may be a good idea.
<package id="adobecs4"
name="Adobe CS4"
revision="1"
reboot="false"
priority="0">
<check type="file" condition="exists" path="%PROGRAMFILES%\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4\Photoshop.exe" />
<check type="file" condition="exists" path="%PROGRAMFILES%\Adobe\Adobe Dreamweaver CS4\Dreamweaver.exe" />
<check type="file" condition="exists" path="%PROGRAMFILES%\Adobe\Adobe InDesign CS4\InDesign.exe" />
<install cmd='"%SOFTWARE%\adobecs4\cs4-install.bat"' timeout="7200" />
<upgrade cmd='"%SOFTWARE%\adobecs4\cs4-install.bat"' timeout="7200" />
<remove cmd='"%SOFTWARE%\adobecs4\cs4-uninstall.bat"' />
</package>