Question about Adobe Reader 8 and its updates

[girish1026]

Hi to all. I have the setup file of Adobe Reader v8.1.3 and i downloaded updates for Adobe Reader v8.1.3 from adobe website. The updates i downloaded are

dbeRdrUpd814_all_ce_incr.msp

AdbeRdrUpd815_all_incr.msp

AdbeRdrUpd816_all_incr.msp

I installed the updates in above order from dbeRdrUpd814_all_ce_incr.msp to AdbeRdrUpd816_all_incr.msp. After installing the last update the Adobe Reader showing its version is 8.1.6. Now my question is can i integrate all these updates in main installation file? So that at later time if i install Adobe Reader it directly installs to v8.1.6. What is the procedure to do this?

Thanks.

[strel]

You can try making an administrative install and then applying the patch files. Something similar to this:

msiexec /a adobereader.msi TARGETDIR=..\destinationpath
msiexec /p dbeRdrUpd814_all_ce_incr.msp /a ..\destinationpath\adobereaderadmininstalled.msi
msiexec /p AdbeRdrUpd815_all_incr.msp /a ..\destinationpath\adobereaderadmininstalled.msi
msiexec /p AdbeRdrUpd816_all_incr.msp /a ..\destinationpath\adobereaderadmininstalled.msi

[cybpsych]

if u have Adobe Reader v8.1.3 (Full), then u can use it as a base by following Strel's method.

you can ignore 8.1.4/8.1.5 updates because 8.1.6 covers the previous updates.

as mentioned here (http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/498/cpsid_49880.html) it's recommended to do so due to the update category.

[HØLLØW]

you can ignore 8.1.4/8.1.5 updates because 8.1.6 covers the previous updates.

That's what I would say.

These are all incremental patches and they implement the earlier released updates.

Edited July 5, 2009 by HØLLØW