![]() ![]() Nothing shady, just the ugly underbelly of Adobe software. ZXPInstaller said it wasnt compatible with the versions of Adobe software I have (I. By deleting the Extension Manager, which is obsolete if you're using CC 2015.5, you remove half of the conflict letting Adobe's other installer do all the work. for enabling the Adobe Link plugin, and everything works (btw. Use any of the following Adobe extension installers: Electron Adobe ZXPInstaller, an open source Adobe extension installer from zxpinstaller. I am using a Macbook Pro 2020 with Big Sur 11.2.3 and the Creative Suite updated to 2021 versions of all the apps. Installing from Adobe Exchange If installing from the zxp file, do not use Adobe Extensions Manager which was discontinued since 2014, to install the zxp file. Adobe extension installation is notoriously buggy and I've seen many instances where one Adobe tool causes silent conflicts with others. I am trying to instal some extensions onto After Effets 2021 using ZXP installer however, it keeps showing 'Installation failed because the extension is not compatible with the installed applications'. ![]() 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. 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. 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. ZXPInstaller is a simple cross-platform (OS X and Windows) installer for third-party Adobe extensions (.zxp files). ![]() ZXP Installer uses ExManCmd, Adobe's official command line tool for installing extensions. ![]()
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