Munki error “ERROR: Adobe Setup error: 79: Unknown error”

I prepared a nice little Adobe Acrobat Pro package for Munki, and I tried to install it and got this error (ERROR: Adobe Setup error: 79: Unknown error).

Turns out, that isn’t a Munki error at all:
Re: [munki-dev] CS6 package wont install > Adobe Setup Error: 79

It has to do with some processes running in the background that prevent the installation from going through. I rebooted my computer (didn’t launch up any other programs), ran it again, and all was good.

sudo managedsoftwareupdate –installonly
Managed Software Update Tool
Copyright 2010-2014 The Munki Project
https://github.com/munki/munki

Starting…
Performing preflight tasks…
Installing Adobe Acrobat X Pro (1 of 1)…
Mounting disk image Adobe Acrobat Professional X_Install-10.1.1.dmg…
Starting Adobe installer…
Completed payload 1 of 4 – Suite Shared Configuration CS6…
Completed payload 2 of 4 – Acrobat X Pro…
Completed payload 3 of 4 – CS6 Master Collection…
Completed payload 4 of 4 – Acrobat X Pro…
Done.
Finishing…
Performing postflight tasks…
Done.

I hope that helps someone out there.

Posted

May 6, 2015

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alanysiu

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adobe acrobat, adobe creative suite, cs6, errors, munki

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James Kelley

February 22, 2017

This helped me tremendously! Just ran into this problem this morning and this fixed it in seconds!

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