Comments on: Adobe Acrobat Reader 9 Silent Install

By: kalyani

kalyani — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:50:06 +0000

Thank you.It worked perfectly fine..
Will you please tell another softwares that support silent installation??and one more thing what exactly that .msi file contains?plz reply..

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By: David

David — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:58:06 +0000

Useful instructions. Thank you.

One small change: when installing version 9.1, I found the installation files in
C:\Documents and Settings\username\AppData\Adobe\Reader 9.1\Setup Files

David

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:03:04 +0000

Hi Scott, I haven’t specifically tested this with version 9 but in my experience Acrobat Reader installers will upgrade from the previous version of the program if its already installed. Older ones however usually need manual removal.

You could build this into your install script by detecting earlier versions and executing their various uninstall command strings before installing v9. Some example uninstall strings are found here: http://www.appdeploy.com

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:43:15 +0000

Anyone know how to auto remove all versions of Adobe reader, or is there a switch when installing the msi file with mst file, to auto grade what version they have on there system?

Scott

By: Diego

Diego — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:25:53 +0000

I add this line to my login script so it install the app when users login. But how can I configure so it won’t install on computers that alreday have it?
thanks!

msiexec /qb /i AcroRead.msi

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:44:52 +0000

It should work fine, but with SMS or SCCM you sometimes need to configure packages to map a network drive to any letter (or sometimes to a specific letter) during installation.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:54:55 +0000

do you know if you can use the msiexec /qb /i AcroRead.msi in a cmdline Task sequence in SCCM 2007, i’ve been trying and getting errors about invalid path?

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By: Stefano

Stefano — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:33:57 +0000

There is an alternative command: AdbeRdr90_en_US.exe /sAll /sPB /rs
Decompression in temp folder and full silent.
You can execute on remote machine with utility: psexec.exe (to execute remote process with alternative credential)

The sintax is: psexec \\%pc% -i -u administrator -p %pwd% \\serversw\silent\Acrobat9.exe /sAll /sPB
Where %PC% is pc name variable and %pwd% is variable password of the user administrator.

Bye