I'm still having this problem, tried everything mentioned above. Anyone have any other ideas?
I ran into the same problem. I did a quick Google search to see if this was a common problem and found this thread. I've plenty of software development experience, so I took a quick look at the problem and came up with a quick work around. The following solution works:
There is a problem with the "preflight" script.
1. Copy the Adobe Flash Player.pkg to your desktop.
2. Right click on the player and choose show package contents.
3. Navigate to Contents --> Resources
4. Edit the "preflight" script. (I used vi from the terminal, but other text editors should work).
The purpose of this script is to make sure you're using OS X 10.4 or higher and that you've quit out of your browsers. Rather than fixing path issue, I just commented out the code and left it with a successful exit value.
The code looks like this before you edit it.
#!/bin/sh
#
# Preflight installer script
# Copyright 2008 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved.
#
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# [1] Perform version check and don't install on v10.2 & v10.3 systems.
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
"$1/Contents/Resources/MacOSXVersionCheck.sh"
# Fail script if operation didn't execute successfully
EXIT_STATUS=$?
if [ $EXIT_STATUS -ne 0 ]
then
exit $EXIT_STATUS
fi
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# [2] If user's system >= v10.4, continue
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
"$1/Contents/Resources/CloseFPClients.app/Contents/MacOS/CloseFPClients"
# Fail script if operation didn't execute successfully
EXIT_STATUS=$?
if [ $EXIT_STATUS -ne 0 ]
then
exit $EXIT_STATUS
fi
From here, you can do several things. Delete the code or comment out the code by putting a # sign at the beginning of each line. The new code can be as simple as:
#!/bin/sh
exit 0
This just tells the installer that the "preflight" exited without any problems. But, since it didn't actually do any checks, it's up to you to make sure you're using 10.4 or higher and that you've quit Safari and Firefox, etc.
Once you've edited and saved the updated preflight script, run the installer again and it will be fine. Let me know if you run into problems. I'll check in later to help anyone that has questions with the solution I described here. This is just seriously poor quality control on Adobe's part.
