When preparing a package for deployment in Mac OS, the package should be created and stored in Mac OS. It is possible for the references in a Mac OS package to become corrupted if copied and stored in Windows.

Before you begin to deploy the Adobe deployment package, make sure the following conditions are met:

• Remote Management is enabled on all target systems. You can enable this from the System Preferences pane; click Sharing. In the resulting window, select Remote Management in the left pane and select the sharing features you want to enable. Check the ARD documentation for recommendations; for example, “Copy Items” and “Delete and Replace Items” should be selected for deploying packages. Deployment Component Reference.
• The Adobe package you plan to deploy is on or accessible from your administrative machine.
• You have already defined an ARD group that includes all the target systems to which you want to deploy the Adobe package. 
• You have sufficient free memory to deploy on all target systems. This includes space to copy the deployment package to the target system, in addition to the installed size of the deployed products.
  

Allowing user to specify installation location

If you selected “Specify directory during deployment” when configuring an installation deployment package, you must modify the created package before deploying it through ARD.

Make the following change in the created PKG install package:

Package deployment

Update packages

• Update packages are created with a name in the form <pkg_name>_Update.pkg.
• Update packages cannot be uninstalled.

Troubleshooting

Package deployment through ARD can fail if the user state changes during deployment; that is, if a user logs in or out, or you switch users. If you use the task server, the task may start deploying the same package immediately after the state change, which may fail. This is standard ARD behavior. If it occurs, simply redeploy.

Deploy using Copy Items and Send UNIX command

As an alternative to using the “Install Packages” option, you can use the “Copy Items” task to copy the package task to the target system and then run “Send UNIX Command” to run the installer and deploy the copied package.

Uninstalling Adobe software with a deployment package

The installation deployment package contains a file named <package_name>_Uninstall.pkg, which you use to uninstall the software that you installed with the corresponding install file, <package_name>_Install.pkg. The steps are similar to those you followed to install the software.

Uninstall using Copy Items and Send Unix Command

If you deployed using this method, use the same method to uninstall, copying and invoking the uninstall package instead of the install package.