Wednesday, July 18, 2007 3:12 AM
jhinkle
Adobe Creative Suite 3 installation woes
Adobe installers still stink. I've been working on Creative Suite 3 for a little while. With CS2, I could do individual installations from the suite installation directory since each app had its separate MSI. In the new version, Adobe has gone to a custom engine that is common across the Mac and PC platforms, but doesn't provide the kind of control that I had previously. Not good.
On top of that, the Mac installer almost always refuses to work correctly for us. I've built all of the appropriate customization files and built a new DVD with the installation. It fails nine times out of ten, with either a generic error or a licensing error. After some fidgeting and running CS3clean to remove the broken installation, it works. Sometimes.
Is anyone having success automating the Mac installer or using the combined approach above for Windows installations?
Filed under: Deployment