Here are the steps I followed to create my Adobe AIR 3.1.0.4880 package.

Begin by downloading the installer from the Adobe web site. You'll need to apply for a redistribution license to receive permission to download this file.

The MSI installer can be extracted with 7-Zip.

Open the "setup.msi" file with Orca.

It is very poor practice to modify the original MSI file so create a transform or MST file. Transform - New Transform.

If you try running the MSI installer, as is, you should receive the following error:

"Could not access network location (computed)."

To fix this, select the "Property" table and change the value of the "SHAREDADDINFOLDER" to "c:\".

To test this, select Transform - Generate Transform, navigate to your working directory and provide a file name for the MST file. From a command line enter:

msiexec /i setup.msi TRANSFORMS=setup.mst

Then to uninstall:

msiexec /x setup.msi

Next, we want auto-updates disabled. This is accomplished by creating a REG_DWORD called 'UpdateDisabled' in 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\AIR', and setting the value to '1'.

Start by creating the Feature. Select the Feature table and add a row:

Feature: DisableAutoUpdates
Title: DisableAutoUpdates
Description: Prevent automatic installation of updates when an AIR app installation requires a newer version or when the background update process discovers a newer version.
Display: (Find the highest value already in the table and add 1)
Level: 1
Attribute: 0

Next create the Component. Select the Component table and add a row:

Component: UpdateDisabled
ComponentID: (Use a GUID generator. Be sure to include curly braces and everything is uppercase)
Directory_: TARGETDIR
Attribute: 4 (Registry)
KeyPath: UpdateDisabled

Next populate the FeatureComponents table. Select the FeatureComponents table and add a row:

Feature_: DisableAutoUpdates
Component_: UpdateDisabled

Finally, add the registry setting. Select the Registry table and add a row:

Registry: UpdateDisabled
Root: 2 (HKLM)
Key: SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\AIR
Name: UpdateDisabled
Value: #1
Component_: UpdateDisabled

Lastly, we want to pre-accept the EULA. To prevent the EULA from being displayed the first time an Adobe AIR application is run, it is necessary to create a text file called 'eulaAccepted' in %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\Adobe\AIR and set the contents of the file to be '3'.

Use a text editor to create the 'eulaAccepted' file (no extension) in the same directory as setup.msi, with a single character '3' for its contents.

Return to Orca, create the Feature. Select the Feature table and add a row:

Feature: AcceptEula
Title: Accept EULA
Description: Accept End User License Agreement
Display: (Find the highest value already in the table and add 1)
Level: 1
Attribute: 0

Next create the Component. Select the Component table and add a row:

Component: AcceptEula
ComponentID: (Use a GUID generator. Be sure to include curly braces and everything is uppercase)
Directory_: CADFAIR
Attribute: 0 (Local Only)
KeyPath: eulaAccepted

Next populate the FeatureComponents table. Select the FeatureComponents table and add a row:

Feature_: AcceptEula
Component_: AcceptEula

Now we'll create the File table entry. Select the File table and add a row:

File: eulaAccepted
Component_: AcceptEula
FileName: eulaac~1 | eulaAccepted (8.3 name|long name)
Filesize: 1
Attribute: 512 (Vital)
Sequence: (Find the highest value already in the table and add 1)

Next we'll create the Directory entries. Select the Directory table and add the following three rows:

Directory: CommonAppDataFolder
Directory_Parent: TARGETDIR
DefaultDir: Common~1 | CommonAppData:. (8.3 name | DestinationPath:SourcePath)

Directory: CADFAdobe
Directory_Parent: CommonAppDataFolder
DefaultDir: Adobe:. (DestinationPath:SourcePath)

Directory: CADFAIR
Directory_Parent: CADFAdobe
DefaultDir: AIR:. (DestinationPath:SourcePath)

This was the most difficult part to get right and is a good example of how to get files somewhere other than the TARGETDIR path. The DestinationPath:SourcePath syntax is key.

Finally we need to increment the Media table. Select the Media table and increment the value in LastSequence.

That's it. Save your MST and test as before after the MSI fix above. I'm distributing this as an SCCM package so there's no need to add the eulaAccepted text file to the MSI or a new CAB file. This may not be acceptable in other deployment scenarios. Tools like InstEd IT! Make it very easy to add files to the installer, creates checksums and has a handy, built in, GUID generator.

The following command line can be used (the variable %~dp0 used for souce directory):

"%~dp0AdobeAIRInstaller.exe" -silent -eulaAccepted

The following command line can be used to disable automatic updates:

reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\AIR" /v UpdateDisabled /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

"adobeairinstaller.exe" -silent

Silent uninstallation

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Next create the Component. Select the Component table and add a row:

Component: AcceptEula
ComponentID: (Use a GUID generator. Be sure to include curly braces and everything is uppercase)
Directory_: CADFAIR
Attribute: 0 (Local Only)
KeyPath: eulaAccepted

If you want the EULA to be accepted silently be sure to change the Attribute here to 3 when creating the mst.