
You can learn more about all the options available The ls command has many options for viewing nearly any file or folder attribute. Once again, the ls command is your primary tool for viewing file and folder information in the command line. The command line concepts in Chapter 3, “Command Line and Automation,” before reading the remainder of the section. This will remove the old version of reader and is then ready to install the update (or in this case) the reinstall.If you aren’t already comfortable with navigation in the UNIX command line, then it’s strongly recommended that you study To do this (using sudo or root): rm -rf /Applications/Adobe\ Reader.app/ I should also mention, that if it should fail it is because there is an old version of adobe reader that needs to be uninstalled first. To unmount it run: hdiutil unmount /Volumes/AdbeRdr11003_en_US If you see the above it installed correctly. You will get some output like this: installer: Package name is Adobe Reader XI (11.0.03) (to explain the above just in case people are new to this, installer is the program, pkg is the option for installing pkg files, then /Path/to/Adobe\ reader.pkg (the "\" is the escape character to allow for spaces in command line) target is the option that tell you what base path this update to install to (in this case it is the base root directory) it is smart enough to figure out where adobe reader is) To install it (as sudo or root): installer -pkg Adobe\ Reader\ XI\ Installer.pkg -target /

OSX will mount it to exactly: /Volumes/AdbeRdr11003_en_US

In this case we are dealing with OSX and more specifically (at the time of this response) AdbeRdr11003_en_US.dmgįirst mount it with: hdiutil mount /Path/to/AdbeRdr11003_en_US.dmg (If you are getting this for another platform that what you are on (in my case linux to OSX) be sure to click on the link that asks about another language or OS) The most straight forward way I have found to do this has been to go to: /reader (or /flashplayer)Īnd get the most recent version for the OS you are trying to install with.
