Adobe's only officially supported method of installation of Adobe Flash Player on OS X clients is via the installer application bundle in the Install Flash Player .dmg file.
Tip: If you don’t see the app and are positive that Flash Player is in fact installed on your Mac, download the Adobe Flash Player uninstaller from Adobe’s website. 2) Click the Uninstall button to begin the process.
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional (9.0.2) delivers support for the latest update of Adobe Flash Player 9. This update includes a new Video Playback component supporting H.264, support for Flash Lite 3 Update for Flash CS3 Professional, and all Debug and Release versions of this new Adobe Flash Player.
Installation via the extracted pkg from within the application bundle does not update the Adobe Flash Player Installer Manager application located in /Applications/Utilities if it already exists, which can cause issues with inventory and reporting of an otherwise successful managed installation.
Beginning with Flash Player 10.3, the Local Settings Manager supersedes this Online Settings Manager for managing global settings on Windows, Mac, and Linux computers. The Local Settings Manager can be accessed in the Control Panel on Windows and in System Preferences on Mac. Beginning with Flash Player 10.3, the Local Settings Manager supersedes this Online Settings Manager for managing global settings on Windows, Mac, and Linux computers. The Local Settings Manager can be accessed in the Control Panel on Windows and in System Preferences on Mac.
You can successfully deploy Flash Player for Mac clients using the Adobe's preffered method with a little tweaking of the application bundle:
Copy Adobe Flash Player Installer.app from the installer .dmg to writeable media/volume (Desktop in my example)
Edit the info.plist file in the Adobe Flash Player Installer.app to not show a dock item with the following commands:
Zip the edited Adobe Flash Player Installer.app and add as a Software Inventory Item
Create a Managed Installation
Configure Manually
In order to allow installation without a logged in user, use the following Installation Command (all one line):
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To make managing the ongoing updates of the installer, I've simplified this to just use the original dmg from Adobe. This way, you don't have to bother with editing the files and only need to zip the dmg and replace the attached file on the Managed Install.
Download Install_Flash_Player.dmg from Adobe
zip Install Flash Player.dmg and attach Install Flash Player.dmg.zip to Managed Install
Use the following installation command:
Flash Player Test
What this command does:
unzip dmg mount dmg silently copies the embedded .app file to system temp directory unmounts dmg edits the Application properies to run as an agent so it does not create a dock icon, and makes the file readable by all users use launchd to execute the installer using bootstrap context of loginwindow in order to be able to run without needing a logged in user
These instructions are NOT applicable to Flash Player included with Google Chrome. Visit the Flash Player Help page for instructions on enabling (or disabling) Flash Player in various browsers.
If you use Windows, see Uninstall Flash Player | Windows.
If Flash Player is installed on your computer, the following box displays the version of Flash Player and your operating system. If Flash Player is not installed, an error message appears.
If your Flash Player installation was not successful, use the following solution to reinstall.
Click the Apple icon and choose About This Mac.
The Mac OS version appears in the About This Mac dialog.
2. Run the uninstaller applicable to your Mac OS version
Run the uninstaller on Mac OS X 10.4 and later, including macOS
Note:
Beginning with Flash Player 11.5, uninstalling the Flash Player resets the AutoUpdateDisable and SilentAutoUpdateEnable settings in mms.cfg to their default values:
AutoUpdateDisable=0
SilentAutoUpdateEnable=0
If you are running the Flash Player uninstaller as part of your deployment process, redeploy any custom changes to either AutoUpdateDisable or SilentAutoUpdateEnable.
Run the uninstaller on Mac OS X 10.4 and later, including macOS
Download the Adobe Flash Player uninstaller:
Mac OS X, version 10.6 and later: uninstall_flash_player_osx.dmg
Mac OS X, version 10.4 and 10.5: uninstall_flash_player_osx.dmg
The uninstaller is downloaded to the Downloads folder of your browser by default.
In Safari, choose Window > Downloads.
If you are using Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), click the Downloads icon displayed on the browser.
To open the uninstaller, double-click it in the Downloads window.
Note: If the Flash Player installer window does not appear, choose Go > Desktop in the Finder. Scroll down to the Devices section and click Uninstall Flash Player.
To run the uninstaller, double-click the Uninstaller icon in the window. If you see a message asking if you want to open the uninstaller file, click Open.
Bookmark or print this page so that you can use the rest of these instructions after you close your browser.
To close all browsers, either click the browser name in the Uninstaller dialog, or close each browser manually and then click Retry.
Note: Do not click Quit in the Uninstaller window. It stops the uninstallation process.
After you close the browsers, the uninstaller continues automatically until the uninstallation is complete. When you see the message notifying you that the uninstallation succeeded, click Done.
Delete the following directories:
<home directory>/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player
<home directory>/Library/Caches/Adobe/Flash Player
Download the Adobe Flash Player uninstaller:
Mac OS X, version 10.3 and earlier: uninstall_flash_player_osx_10.2.dmg (1.3 MB) (updated 05/27/08)
Choose Window > Downloads to view the downloaded uninstaller.
Save the uninstaller file in a convenient location.
To open the uninstaller, double-click it in the Downloads window.
To run the uninstaller, double-click the Uninstaller icon in the window. If requested, enter your computer user name and password and click OK.
Bookmark or print this page so that you can use the rest of these instructions after you close your browser. Close all browsers and other applications that use Flash Player, including instant messaging applications, SWF files, and projectors (EXE files that play SWF files). Otherwise, the uninstaller cannot finish (even though it appears to finish).
Once the uninstaller finishes, the window closes automatically.
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You can verify that uninstallation is complete by following these steps:
Open your browser and check the status of Flash Player.
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