Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 (CS5 Suite) – Silent Install and Serialization

Dear All, I'm facing issues deploying Adobe Acrobat 9 as part of CS5. We know that Adobe has released a tool to create the apple packages for the CS5 products but not for Adobe Acrobat which is also being included with a different serial number. I would like to have it serialized (unfortunately I have different serials) during the imaging process or the deployment without creates single packages for single serials. Googleizing I found this links but is not working for me. Is someone out there using this method with more luck than me? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. 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: ) to put in the license information. This file goes in "/Contents/Resources/AMT/". So here's a possible workflow for setting up a silent install: 1) package Acrobat 9 in a .pkg using Package Maker or a similar tool 2) create an application.xml.override file like so, replacing "YOUR KEY GOES HERE" with your key: YOUR KEY GOES HERE Suppress Suprress Suppress 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") 4) run the shell script with root privileges (via sudo) and you're done! thanks Dee