In the Utilities folder, find and double click on the Adobe Flash Player Install Manager application. Adobe Flash - installflashplayer18osxpkg.dmg Adobe AIR - AdobeAIR.dmg Adobe Shockwave - ShockwaveInstallerFull64bit.dmg Google Chrome - googlechrome.dmg Adobe Reader DC - AcroRdrDCMUI.dmg I have been reading and watching a lot of videos and tried some methods that do not work. Adobe Install Flash Player Os X Dmg Update If you do end up with malware on your Mac, take a moment to relax and know that everything will be O.K. You can remove malware on your own, but if it seems too difficult for you to tackle, you can talk to Apple support.
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
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.
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.
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:
Install_flash_player_osx.dmg
What this command does:
Install Flash Player Osx Dmg
Install_flash_player_osx.dmg Virus
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