How do you install Macromedia Flash player on new IMAC G5 duo core??

Hi Olivier

I will post easy-peasy (relatively speaking) later - but it's a still, crisp, sunny Saturday morning here - & we own a boat & yes, I've better things to do in this weather .


But for now - you own an imac with an intel inside, right? This is not an iMac G5.

The install disk? When you got your imac there should have been two software disks with it..... mine are labelled "iMac G5 Mac OS X Install disc 1". Yours should be similar, but not G5. This is the Install disc referred to in the other posts you have read.

& no-one's an 'idiot' here - My view is that it shouldn't be so easy for people to lose the Flash player on Intel-macs & I hope that Apple might release a small program to restore the original plugins without owners needing to learn about it - but what you learn will be useful later.


More later - Sun & Sea beckons me

Hi!

If you open a page which requires Flash support, a pop-up comes up asking you to be directed to Macromedia Flash player plig-in download page. There it says compatible with many browsers including Safari but if you read below it says you must have Internet Explorer(3408) or Netscape 6.8 installed for te plug-in to work!

Now, Microsoft have stopped releasing IE for Mac and Netscape haven't upgraded the Mac version for their browser!

Now, as our sailor friend says, your best bet is to wait till Apple release an update for this!

The intel-macs come pre-loaded with intel-native plugins for macromedia flash content - but it is possible for these to be over-written with the wrong plugins - after which Flash content will not play in Safari.

Here's a couple of simple-ish ways to restore the files; hopefully explained in simple terms.

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The correct files can be found on your original OS X Tiger installation disk & can be extracted using an application called Pacifist from http://www.charlessoft.com/ . Follow the instructions in the first post in this thread.


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There's a thread here that has a link to a zipfile of what is contained on your install disk http://formymac.com/MR/plugins.zip

If you are rightly cautious about downloading this file - check out the thread & view the public profile of the guy who put it up for grabs.

Then instead of clicking on the link I gave - ctrl-click it & choose 'download linked file' . Then click the downloaded file once & press Apple-I for the 'get info' window & make sure that 'Kind' does show as a zip archive.


If you're happy to use this file - download it ( 3.5MB) & open it ... it should unzip & create a folder named "internet plug-ins"

Open this folder & locate the files named Flash Player.plugin & NP-PPC-Dir-Shockwave

Select both files ( click one, then Apple-click the other so they're both highlighted ) Then ctrl-click on one of them & choose "copy 2 items".



From the Finder menu, choose Go - Go to folder & paste /Library/Internet Plug-ins/ into the address box & click the Go button.


Ctrl-click on an empty space inside the folder & choose 'paste items' . Choose 'replace' if you get a dialogue box saying " a file with the name xxx already exists..."

Quit Safari, open it again & Flash should work again. You can check that the plug-ins were recognised by going to Safari-Help-Installed Plug ins .


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THis thread just saved my life 🙂

All of a sudden no Flash...tried everything...found this thread, copied the files over....everything works great again 🙂

Thanks people.

Hi Paul,

Glad to hear that this helped you solve your problem
Really nice to know we helped, thank you for posting.
would of been a little easier to find had it been marked by the OP

Good job
Enjoy your computer!!
regards, Eme

Not sure if this will help since I can't test it, but it looks like Macromedia has released a preview version of Flash for Intel-based Macs.

Here's the download link: http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/preview/8/flashplayer8universalpreview.dmg

I figured I'd pass it along. If it doesn't work, just follow andy Balluk's advice 🙂
-Ryan

thank you thank you thank you thank you! 🙂

after much frustration, this is the first/only thing that has worked!! Huzzah!

Saratoons & Paulcross - thank-you too. a little feedback is always nice

andyBall_uk , i think you can help me...
I'm having the same problems with FLASH 8 and OS X 10.4.5, but i have an iMac 15'' 1.6 Ghz PowerPC... I tried the "intel" solution you posted, but i'm not having good results...
In every flash web page i tried to load, a message appears saying that "The page “(page name)” attempted to load an Internet plug-in named “Shockwave Flash”, but the plug-in failed to load successfully."

Please HELP !!! Thanks a Lot !!

iMac G5 POWERPC Mac OS X (10.4.5)

I'm still not able to view flash web sites. I've tried both fixes and followed all the steps. All I get when I go to one of those sites is the Quicktime logo with a little question mark in the middle.

Does anyone have any other suggestions? I just got my new Mac yesterday, and it's frustrating when things just don't seem to work.

Thanks,
Matt.

Hi ma77

if you see the QT logo - it may not be a flash site you're viewing. Can you post a couple of url's so I can check?