automate Flash Player 21.0.0.213 installation
We are trying to install latest Flash Player 21.0.0.213 automatically on several Windows 7 64-Bit systems (mostly German some English). We are having difficulties to upgrade especially from older versions and install Flash Player 21.0.0.213 afterwards. I have to admit every single Flash Player version update is my personal administrative nightmare.
We are calling latest Flash Player uninstaller before we install Flash Player 21. We tried to install via msi and exe, without a difference. The result after we assign the package to the system is that older versions of Flash Player are removed but Flash Player 21 is not installed. If I assign the same package again it finally installs it successfully. We even tried to change to install twice in our scripts - no solution, same behaviour.
Is there a documentation available what is failing here ? We have a C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\FlashInstall.log available but couldn't find a source that documents how to interpret the contents of this file:
=O====== M/21.0.0.213 2016-04-19+09-27-56.000 ========
0000 00000010 C:\Windows\TEMP\1461053786.OCS\data\install_flash_player_21_active_x.exe -install
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0003 00000011 1
0004 00000020 C:\Windows\SysWOW64\FlashPlayerCPLApp.cpl
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0007 00000013
0008 00000015 C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil32_21_0_0_213_ActiveX.exe
0009 00000016 C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil32_21_0_0_213_ActiveX.dll
0010 00000023 C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\activex.vch
0011 00000019 C:\Windows\SysWOW64\FlashPlayerCPLApp.cpl
0012
=X====== M/21.0.0.213 2016-04-19+09-28-01.709 ========
=O====== M/21.0.0.213 2016-04-19+09-28-01.803 ========
0000 00000010 C:\Windows\TEMP\1461053786.OCS\data\install_flash_player_21_plugin.exe -install
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0002
0003 00000011 1
0004 00000020 C:\Windows\SysWOW64\FlashPlayerCPLApp.cpl
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0006
0007
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0009
0010
0011
0012
0013
0014
0015 00000014
0016 00000015 C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil32_21_0_0_213_Plugin.exe
0017 00000024 C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\plugin.vch
0018 00000017 C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash
0019 00000022 C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\FlashPlayerPlugin_21_0_0_213.exe
0020 00000019 C:\Windows\SysWOW64\FlashPlayerCPLApp.cpl
0021
=X====== M/21.0.0.213 2016-04-19+09-28-07.044 ========
