Nothing shady, just the ugly underbelly of Adobe software.
In the first dialog you get immediately after you run this utility, you have to select the Zip filename that contains the software you want to install. By deleting the Extension Manager, which is obsolete if you're using CC 2015.5, you remove half of the conflict letting Adobe's other installer do all the work. Simply run the executable (zipinst.exe) and start using it. LCL.exe, a898d68a1e0e16dfb8d5c2a0f8a7a208479ca234946f3be7c00801c736aa060c. Adobe extension installation is notoriously buggy and I've seen many instances where one Adobe tool causes silent conflicts with others. The metadata used to define how extensions are installed is the same between ExMan (ZXP Installer) and the Extension Manager, and as far as I know, they use the same system storage for managing and checking which extensions are and are not installed.
It has a fallback custom install option that should work in cases where other installers (including Adobe's own installer) fail.
It will work with any ZXP extension, it does not have to be one you got from us. Double-click the ZXPInstaller.dmg (Mac) or ZXPInstaller.exe (Win) to install ZXPInstaller. We are happy to share with the community our FREE installer for CEP extensions for Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro.
However, because some extensions support versions that did work with the Extension Manager, you'll find that it will still launch and try to install them, probably one of the most common support tickets I answer for my extensions. ZXPInstaller is a free open source alternative to Adobe Extension Manager: Download ZXPInstaller. Implementation-wise, all ZXP Installer does when you drag an extension onto it is capture the filename and then create the command line string needed to run Adobe's tool.Īdobe dropped support for the Extension Manager after CC 2014, so it isn't possible to install CC 2015.5 extensions with the Extension Manager.
ZXP Installer uses ExManCmd, Adobe's official command line tool for installing extensions.