I'm looking to do remote updates of Adobe Reader on machines with no Internet (please note this does not mean no *NETWORK*) access.
I found an answer to my question of how to get the version...
defaults read /Applications/Adobe\ Reader.app/Contents/Info.plist CFBundleGetInfoString | cut -d' ' -f4 | sed 's/,$//'
And the procedure I worked out:
REMOTEHOST=hostname
scp AdbeRdr11001_en_US.dmg $REMOTEHOST:
ssh $REMOTEHOST hdiutil attach ~/AdbeRdr11001_en_US.dmg
ssh -t $REMOTEHOST
"sudo installer -pkg \"/Volumes/AdbeRdr11001_en_US/Adobe Reader XI Installer.pkg\" -target /"
ssh $REMOTEHOST
"hdiutil detach \`hdiutil info | grep AdbeRdr11001_en_US | grep '^/' | cut -f1\`"
ssh $REMOTEHOST rm ~/AdbeRdr11001_en_US.dmg