[MacTUG] Silent uninstall of Acrobat Pro 2015

[Donald Duff-McCracken]

I want to create a silent uninstaller of Acrobat Pro.*

This is a pretty good page on Acrobat deployment --  https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/AdminGuide/mac.html#cmd-line-uninstalls – and it has the syntax for a command line uninstaller of acrobat and this seems to work for Acrobat 2015. (all one line)

/Applications/Adobe\ Acrobat\ 2015/Adobe\ Acrobat.app/Contents/Helpers/Acrobat\ Uninstaller.app/Contents/MacOS/RemoverTool /Applications/Adobe\ Acrobat\ 2015/Adobe\ Acrobat.app/Contents/Helpers/Acrobat\ Uninstaller.app/Contents/MacOS/RemoverTool "/Applications/Adobe Acrobat 2015/Adobe Acrobat.app"

I thought that there was a typo with it having the path to “RemoverTool” twice in the command, but the first instance of it seems to remove all the ancillary files (eg in Application Support) and the second instance (followed by the path the the main App) removes the actual Acrobat.app file (and the folder that encloses it and the other files in it – an alias to the uninstaller and Distiller.app)


*SCCM lets you add an optional uninstaller and I am trying to do this for most of the software I am packaging
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Donald Duff-McCracken
Technical Services Manager
Mapping, Analysis & Design
Faculty of Environment
University of Waterloo
(519) 888-4567 x32151
https://uwaterloo.ca/environment-computing/about/people
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