This is true from my past experiences.  Its less problematic to un-install
and re-install.

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Espi




On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Jim Dandy <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > I’m trying to create an administrative install for Adobe Reader 10.1.2.
>
>   One of my minions was researching this until we hit unrelated snags.
>  From what he said, Adobe's distribution methodology is a crock.  He
> had a doc from Adobe -- I'm pretty sure it's the same one Rob Trent
> points to -- that spelled out how you had to do things.  Apparently
> you can't just apply patches; only certain categories of patches can
> be applied to certain releases, and then you can't patch that install
> point again.
>
>  Oh, and the way the client PCs installed a patch was obscene; it
> basically could only do a full uninstall and then reinstall from
> scratch.
>
>  Adobe has all the same patch management problems today that
> Microsoft had in 1997.
>
> -- Ben
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