Last updated at 2015-09-08 16:59:21 by oucs0089

Adobe Creative Cloud Packaging for Orchard

Adobe Creative Cloud is not packaged using autopkg as Adobe force us to use the Creative Cloud Packager application to download and transform the Adobe installers into silent OS X installer pkgs. The handling of update downloads and their import into Munki can be semi-automated with Tim Sutton's aamporter tool.

Main Application Installers

For each new major release of Creative Cloud it will be necessary to package all the individual apps by creating a single Named User installer for each one (without any updates included as this interferes with aamporter). To do this you must download CCP from the VIP portal and run it for each app, making sure that updates via the Creative Cloud app are disabled for each install, and spaces are expressed as underscores:

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Once these are done we use Tim Sutton's FIXME

Further Notes

Adobe Creative Cloud Packager Cache location

The Adobe Creative Cloud Packager (CCP) stores downloaded installers in the ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe folder. One might want to check and clean this folder to reclaim some disk space. This would cause CCP to download these installers again if required.


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