Hi,
All Admin Console packages are now full installers, to avoid the need to first install the base version of the product, so that any package can be installed whether or not the initial release is already present.
You can install a package from the Admin Console containing applications on top of previously installed versions of those Creative Cloud applications in order to update them. If a more recent version of one of the applications is installed, the package will fail to install.
If your users do not have local administration rights, you can set the options in an Admin Console package to display the list of applications and to allow users to install applications via Creative Cloud Desktop:
Create a managed package and tick the options "Enable self-service install" and "Allow non-admins to update and install apps". Deactivating these options will show a message instead of the list of applications in Creative Cloud Desktop.
More information on creating packages can be found here:
https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/using/create-nul-packages.html
To install the package, use the setup.exe in the "Build" directory on a Windows system, to ensure that all of its components are installed. Applying the MSI in this directory may result in not installing everything, depending on what the package contains.
I hope that helps explain.
Best wishes
Dom
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