Silent Install of Acrobat 9 Pro

Question

I've seen a few questions about installing Acrobat 9 Pro silently on Mac OS X. Maybe someone's already dealt with this, but I thought it might be helpful. Installing Acrobat 9 Pro silently (and across multiple machines) is possible. I have not, however, figured out how to install Acrobat 9 updates silently (I could just be missing some documentation), so if anyone has any clues on this, please let me know.<br /><br />The key to installing Acrobat 9 Pro silently is licensing the application silently. This isn't documented (as far as I can tell), but you can use an application.xml.override file ( as outlined by the CS3 deployment docs: http://www.adobe.com/support/deployment/cs3_deployment.pdf ) to put in the license information. This file goes in "<path to Acrobat 9 Pro app>/Contents/Resources/AMT/".<br /><br />So here's a possible workflow for setting up a silent install:<br />1) package Acrobat 9 in a .pkg using Package Maker or a similar tool<br />2) create an application.xml.override file with the following text, replacing "YOUR KEY GOES HERE" with your key:<br /><br /><?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><br /><Configuration><br /><Payload><br />     <Data key="Serial" protected="0">YOUR KEY GOES HERE</Data><br />     <Data key="Registration">Suppress</Data><br />     <Data key="EULA">Suprress</Data><br />     <Data key="Updates">Suppress</Data><br /></Payload><br /></Configuration><br /><br />3) write a shell script that installs the .pkg via installer (installer -pkg "Acrobat 9 Pro.pkg" -target /) and copies the application.xml.override to the correct directory (cp application.xml.override "/Applications/Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro/Adobe Acrobat Pro.app/Contents/Resources/AMT/application.xml.override")<br />4) run the shell script with root privileges (via sudo) and you're done!<br /><br />Again, if anyone has clues on installing updates silently, please share.

Answer 1

It sounds like you are trying to use a retail serial as an enterprise serial and would like to bypass it's restrictions by deactivating it . . . I assume that's not possible, but perhaps I don't understand your issue.
I doubt you'll get a good answer on the forum. Try support, your sales rep, or a help link on the licensing web site (if there is one).
Ben