I'm having trouble with installing Adobe Flash Player

You might think about upgrading your OS X at least to Snow Leopard and finding the appropriate version of Flash that is compatible with it. Meanwhile, uninstall Flash: Uninstall Flash Player | Mac OS.

The big Step 1 button that says Install doesn't install anything. It downloads the installer to your Mac. Note that Step 2 tells you what to do next:

To proceed, open your download folder and locate the Adobe Flash Player Installer file, named like "AdobeFlashPlayer[xxx]_install.dmg”.

The file you'll find there should be named:

AdobeFlashPlayer_17_ta_install.dmg

Double click the .dmg file to open it. You'll see this:

Click the "Install Adobe Flash Player" package. When the installation is done, you can close this window and dismount the .dmg file by putting the "drive" icon that appeared on the desktop in the trash. You can then delete the .dmg file as you no longer need it.

The Step 3 Adobe shows is completely pointless.

your answer was assuming I was not computer savvy or somewhat dumb

What led you to that conclusion?

I don't know about you, but I flunked Mind Reading 101. Since there is no way beforehand to know another person's skills, as in one to whom you've never spoken to before, it's typically best to be verbose rather than assuming truncated instructions will suffice. Most of the time when you attempt the latter, you are then asked for more complete instructions.

In the future, try not to assume what other people are thinking.

Sorry for mixing my experience with Adobe Flash Player...

My Snow Leopard OSX has been downloading and updating Adobe Flash Player without no problems. However, the last update automatically downloaded on 20th May 2015 (*.dmg) stops with an very long error message that is also automatically sent to Apple. No answer for the moment.

This is a copy of the first and last lines shown by the error message when you open the installer:

Parent Process: launchd [68911]

Report Version: 6

Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 3

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)

Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000000

Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

0 ...obe.InstallAdobeFlashPlayer 0x513998c3 ADMUtilities::getDmgName(std::string&) + 131

1 ...obe.InstallAdobeFlashPlayer 0x513b7d14 ApplicationContext::ApplicationContext() + 852

2 ...obe.InstallAdobeFlashPlayer 0x513c9df7 main + 71

3 ...obe.InstallAdobeFlashPlayer 0x51393145 start + 53

Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):

eax: 0xa0a4220c ebx: 0x51399851 ecx: 0x00000000 edx: 0x00000008

edi: 0x51443e68 esi: 0x0010b880 ebp: 0xbffff8b8 esp: 0xbffff6d0

ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010202 eip: 0x513998c3 cs: 0x00000017

ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037

cr2: 0x00000000

Binary Images:

0x51392000 - 0x51442fff +com.adobe.InstallAdobeFlashPlayer 1.0.0.14s (1.0.0.14s) <1228ABF2-E595-3FFD-B347-E72719D152D3> /Volumes/Adobe Flash Player Installer/Install Adobe Flash Player.app/Contents/MacOS/Install Adobe Flash Player

....

And the final lines:

Model: iMac11,1, BootROM IM111.0034.B02, 4 processors, Intel Core i7, 2.8 GHz, 8 GB, SMC 1.54f36

Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 4850, ATI Radeon HD 4850, PCIe, 512 MB

Memory Module: global_name

AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x168C, 0x8F), Atheros 9280: 2.1.14.6

Bluetooth: Version 2.4.5f3, 2 service, 19 devices, 1 incoming serial ports

Network Service: Ethernet, Ethernet, en0

Serial ATA Device: Hitachi HDS722020ALA330, 1,82 TB

Serial ATA Device: HL-DT-ST DVDRW GA11N

USB Device: Hub, 0x0424 (SMSC), 0x2514, 0xfa100000 / 2

USB Device: Internal Memory Card Reader, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8403, 0xfa120000 / 4

USB Device: BRCM2046 Hub, 0x0a5c (Broadcom Corp.), 0x4500, 0xfa110000 / 3

USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8215, 0xfa111000 / 5

USB Device: Hub, 0x0424 (SMSC), 0x2514, 0xfd100000 / 2

USB Device: Built-in iSight, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8502, 0xfd110000 / 4

USB Device: IR Receiver, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8242, 0xfd120000 / 3

Any idea?

Thanks for your help

Rather than letting the Flash Player download the update, try retrieving it from Adobe manually. See if that one works as expected.

Thank you Kurt. In fact, this was the right solution!

<Mr. Burns>

Excellent!

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