1 Reply Latest reply: Jan 29, 2013 2:58 PM by MichaelKazlow RSS

    Update Reader from Mac Terminal?

    jnojr Community Member

      I'm looking to do remote updates of Adobe Reader on machines with no Internet (please note this does not mean no *NETWORK*) access.

       

      I found an answer to my question of how to get the version...

       

      defaults read /Applications/Adobe\ Reader.app/Contents/Info.plist CFBundleGetInfoString | cut -d' ' -f4 | sed 's/,$//'

       

      And the procedure I worked out:

       

      REMOTEHOST=hostname

      scp AdbeRdr11001_en_US.dmg $REMOTEHOST:

      ssh $REMOTEHOST hdiutil attach ~/AdbeRdr11001_en_US.dmg

      ssh -t $REMOTEHOST "sudo installer -pkg \"/Volumes/AdbeRdr11001_en_US/Adobe Reader XI Installer.pkg\" -target /"

      ssh $REMOTEHOST "hdiutil detach \`hdiutil info | grep AdbeRdr11001_en_US | grep '^/' | cut -f1\`"

       

      ssh $REMOTEHOST rm ~/AdbeRdr11001_en_US.dmg