microsoft / microsoft/winget-cli
Creative Cloud (incl Acrobat) not updating correctly
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Description
Brief description of your issue
I have Adobe Creative Cloud installed. It generally managed updates of the CC packages. However winget picked up Acrobat as well as CC itself for updates, however refuses to install. For CC it didn't even try, just displayed an error. However for Adobe it downloads and launches the installer, gets 99% of the way through then gives a version error.
Steps to reproduce
Run winget upgrade --alll on a system with Adobe Creative Cloud installed
Expected behavior
Either update CC & Acrobat or not show them on the list at all as managed by Adobe's CC updater
Actual behavior
(11/21) Found Adobe Creative Cloud [Adobe.CreativeCloud] Version 6.7.0.278
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Downloading https://prod-rel-ffc-ccm.oobesaas.adobe.com/adobe-ffc-external/core/v1/wam/download?sapCode=KCCC&wamFeature=nuj-live
██████████████████████████████ 3.18 MB / 3.18 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
| Starting Stub installer...
Installer failed with exit code: 81
(8/21) Found Adobe Acrobat Reader (64-bit) [Adobe.Acrobat.Reader.64-bit] Version 25.001.20531
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Downloading https://ardownload2.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobat/win/AcrobatDC/2500120531/AcroRdrDCx642500120531_MUI.exe
██████████████████████████████ 699 MB / 699 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Installer failed with exit code: 1603
Installer log is available at: C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\DiagOutputDir\WinGet-Adobe.Acrobat.Reader.64-bit.25.001.20531-2025-06-27-18-03-05.637.log
WinGet-Adobe.Acrobat.Reader.64-bit.25.001.20531-2025-06-27-18-03-05.637.log
Environment
Windows Package Manager v1.11.400
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Windows: Windows.Desktop v10.0.26100.4061
System Architecture: X64
Package: Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller v1.26.400.0
Winget Directories
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Logs %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\Diag…
User Settings %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\sett…
Portable Links Directory (User) %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WinGet\Links
Portable Links Directory (Machine) C:\Program Files\WinGet\Links
Portable Package Root (User) %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WinGet\Packages
Portable Package Root C:\Program Files\WinGet\Packages
Portable Package Root (x86) C:\Program Files (x86)\WinGet\Packages
Installer Downloads E:\Downloads
Configuration Modules %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WinGet\Configuration\Modules
Links
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Third Party Notices https://aka.ms/winget-3rdPartyNotice
Homepage https://aka.ms/winget
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Admin Setting State
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LocalManifestFiles Disabled
BypassCertificatePinningForMicrosoftStore Disabled
InstallerHashOverride Disabled
LocalArchiveMalwareScanOverride Disabled
ProxyCommandLineOptions Disabled
DefaultProxy Disabled
Contributor guide
First steps
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing winget upgrade --alll on the reported Windows and inspect the attached Adobe Acrobat installer log alongside the Creative Cloud exit code 81 output. Trace how these Adobe packages are discovered and upgraded, then verify that managed packages are either updated successfully or excluded from the upgrade list without misleading failures.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- cli, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100