

- #Disable adobe updater command line mac os x#
- #Disable adobe updater command line install#
- #Disable adobe updater command line update#
#Disable adobe updater command line install#
I don't have Creative Suite so I can't verify that.įurthermore, it appears that when you set Updater preference in Adobe Reader XI to "Do not download or install updates automatically," it now removes the launchd task as well, which means the launchctl and rm commands would no longer be necessary. Just run the following on the command line and you'll be all set: REG ADD 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\8. So I was overjoyed to learn the other day that you can easily disable Adobe Updater by using the command-line REG program. I just installed Adobe (Acrobat) Reader XI and found that the name is still .*, but if you have Creative Suite, it might be .* instead. As you might guess, I hate Adobe Updater.

Feel free to remove them all.Įdit (Oct 20, 2012): a couple of readers pointed out in the comment that the launchd namespace used by Adobe Updater is now different.
#Disable adobe updater command line update#
On your workstation, update to the latest version of the SDK Platform Tools. While you are at it, there may be other launchd jobs in ~/Library/LaunchAgents left over from stale applications you might have tried before. Find out about the Android Debug Bridge, a versatile command-line tool that. Create a new file (Tip: This file does not. plist`īasically, the idea is, for each launchd plist file in ~/Library/LaunchAgents that you don't want, run launchctl remove on the job name, which is the same as the plist file name without the. Disable auto-update system wide and lock it down 1. To remove, type these commands in a Terminal window: In some cases the updater is system wide. If you look inside the file (it's a plain text file), you'd see that launchd would run the updater at 12600 seconds interval, or 3.5 hours. To remove Adobe Updater, type these commands in a Terminal window: cd /Library/LaunchAgents launchctl remove basename launchctl remove basename rm. The actual file name is suffixed with a number of random characters, but it starts with "" as the prefix. The job file is stored under your ~/Library/LaunchAgents folder. To launchd, Adobe Updater is a periodic job.
#Disable adobe updater command line mac os x#
The updater is launched by a Mac OS X system service called launchd. To stop Adobe Updater completely, one must understand how it gets run in the first place. install via SCCM 2007 using the following command line: msiexec.exe /qn /i AcroRead.msi. The fact that I'm dedicating system resource every now and then so the Adobe Updater can phone home but not tell me to update is not good enough for me. Next Disable Adobe Online Features in Adobe Reader XI (11.x).

Adobe update manager is really annoying, but most instructions on the web to disable it merely tells Adobe Updater not to report updates the updater still runs silently.
