Tag: adobe
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Managed Software Center may get stuck on “Starting Adobe installer…”
If you import an Adobe installer into your Munki repo, you may get it stuck on the installation part where Managed Software Center (or Munki’s logs) will just say Starting Adobe installer… and get stuck on that perpetually (I waited “only” a half hour, but it could possibly stay indefinitely). I searched in the MacAdmins…
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Adobe Package Downloader error on Big Sur
If you get a The installation cannot continue as the installer file may be damaged. Download the installer file again. error when trying to run the Adobe Package Downloader.app on Big Sur, the quickest workaround (as of the writing of this blog post) is to copy the Adobe Package Downloader.app (or, more precisely, the .dmg…
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Failing Adobe Acrobat DC updates
Usually when new Acrobat updates come out, I can have clients pull them off the Munki server and install those updates automatically. Randomly, some clients will error out: installer: The upgrade failed (The Installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.) installer:%42.031690 installer:PHASE:Preparing for installation… installer: Package…
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Disabling update checks for Adobe Flash Player
If you’re using Munki (or some other management tool) to distribute Adobe Flash Player updates to your clients, you don’t need Flash Player itself to pester users with update prompts, so you can disable that by following Greg Neagle’s old tutorial on how to disable the notifications. It’s from 2011, but the same instructions apply…
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“Out of memory” error with Adobe InDesign CS6 and El Capitan
A user who upgraded to El Capitan but still uses Adobe InDesign CS6 was getting an error about InDesign being “out of memory.” I did some Googling and came across this fix. Application Frame was already disabled under the window, so the user didn’t have to do that, but “trashing” (really renaming to com.adobe.InDesign.plist.bak when…
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Creating an installation package for a scheduled Adobe Remote Update Manager
This is kind of a dual-purpose Mac tutorial—how to automate Adobe Remote Update Manager and how to create an installation package using a point-and-click graphical interface. Automating Adobe Remote Update Manager You can find the Adobe Remote Update Manager on Adobe’s Creative Suite Enterprise Deployment page. Just scroll down a bit until you find it.…