General Error Message When Installing Flash Player on Mac

I have tried many of the suggestions from this thread but I'm still not able to get the latest Flash Player to install.  OS X 10.9 on a Mac Mini.  When I try the 11.9 installer that was linked by jfwmix above (post #26), it fails partway through.  When I examine the Console, it shows there was a crash log generated.  Pasted below are the contents of that crash log.  Any suggestions on what to try next?

Nevermind, once I ran the uninstall procedures again, then restarted, then ran the installer linked by jfwmix in post #26, it worked this time.

Having this problem on a fresh install of 10.8.2.

Thanks to @mrdredre, the solution for me was to go to System Preferences, Security & Privacy, General tab, Allow applications downloaded from - make it "Anywhere".

After doing that, I re-ran the installer and it worked just fine.

Crazy that Adobe would release this new installer w/o having it signed so it works without changing this setting.

-- Alex

I have been following the issues with installing the current Adobe Flash Player for Mac on the message boards since my Flash Player ceased functioning correctly this morning.

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1144035?tstart=0

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1149789?tstart=0

• I was initially getting the Illegal Plugin message on sites with imbedded YouTube.  I downloaded the Flash Player Uninstaller and that remedied that problem but Flash is still not working

• I've tried installing the Flash Player using the small 1MB download application located at: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

• I have also tried using Terminal as described in one of the Adobe forums

• Both gave the same results (see attached screenshots)  I have tried this several times (each time uninstalling beforehand) and it always stops at the 7% and then gives the 47% on the timeout screen

• It appears to be a downloading issue.  I was not able to find a direct link to the full 16MB Flash Player installer to verify it is a downloading issue.

UPDATE:

• I downloaded the "Download the Macintosh Flash Player 11.5 Plugin content debugger" from the following link and everything appears to be working correctly now.

• http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html

Hope this helps everyone out.

My rig:

Mac OSX 10.7.5

Safari Version 6.0.2 (7536.26.17)

Mac Pro 2x 2.66 Dual Core Intel Xeon

How i solved:

1. Mount the Flash Player installer .dmg file
2. Copy the "Install Adobe Flash Player" file to desktop or any other directory as preferred
3. Open terminal and cd to desktop or the other directory
4. Run the following command on terminal: sudo ./Install\ Adobe\ Flash\ Player.app/Contents/MacOS/Install\ Adobe\ Flash\ Player
5. Insert the password when asked

The easiest workaround I found is selecting the "Notify me to install updates" option, instead of "Allow Adobe to install updates).  I suspect it has something to do with Mountain Lion requiring a higher level of authentication to install programs, or removing the ability for programs to autoupdate completely (complete speculation on the second part).  Just make sure to check for updates on a weekly, if not daily, basis.

You may also need to go into System Preferences-->Security & Privacy-->Allow applications downloaded from: Anywhere. You'll have to put in an admin account password.

Thank you for posting and I apologize for the inconvenience this has caused.  Which browser are you using when this occurs?  Is the browser running, if so does the same error occur if it's closed?

Could you please launch your Console application (Applications/Utilities/Console), verify that "All Messages" is selected in the left column, then in the upper right corner type "flash".  Please copy and paste the lines of text that appear in the main log area.

Thanks,

Chris