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Creating an MSI Package for Adobe Reader 6
Technical Note 2067
Last Reviewed 02-Jul-2004
Summary
Technical Note 2067
Last Reviewed 02-Jul-2004
Summary
This technical note describes how to create an MSI package for Adobe Reader 6, add it to the WinINSTALL Console, and deploy it.
Background
Acrobat Reader is an MSI installation, so when you run setup.exe it extracts the *.msi file and leaves it and its source files in a hidden directory of the machine on which it was installed:
C:\WINDOWS or C:\WINNT\cache\adobe reader 6.0\enubigHow to Create an MSI Package
To create an *.msi package for Adobe Reader, copy the entire contents of the hidden files in the ENUBIG folder into a subfolder of \\server\WinINSTALL\Packages\.
For example: \\server\WinINSTALL\Packages\AdobeReader6\
Note the following:
- If spaces are used in the folder or file names, rename the file to remove spaces.
- The files may be marked as Read-Only. Check the File Properties and remove this attribute from all files.
Adding an Existing Windows Installer (*.msi file) Package to a List in the Console
- Right-click the List in the WinINSTALL Console > Add Existing > Windows Installer Package.
- Click the ellipses (...) button to browse to the \\Server\WinINSTALL\Packages\ directory. (In the Look-in drop-down list, make sure that you are going through a network and not a local drive letter to the share folder.)
- Navigate to the folder where the package is located and double-click it to open.
- Now browse to the *.msi file within this folder or subfolder, in this case Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0.1.
- Click Open. The MSI package should now show as the last entry in the list.
- Notice that General is selected by default in the view pane. Click the Install Modes tab in the right data pane. Verify that Per Machine is selected.
- Right-click on the package in the tree pane > Compress.
- Click Save.
- Test installation using this *.msi.
- Distribute package normally.
