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I can't find Flash Player download link which will give me the full EXE/MSI file, not the tiny downloader which downloads data from the internet.
What's the proper download site for this?
jakub.g
Posted 2012-06-14T15:52:05.100
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Edit 2017: The installers are now at http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution5.html
Edit 2016:
It seems that the link below does no longer give access to offline installers :(
original answer:
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html
I've contacted Adobe because I was completely unable to install Flash with the 900kb installer-downloaders which always flood me with strange errors (and delete themselves from the run location! so you can't launch the installer-downloader after failure, have to re-download it), and they sent me this link.
jakub.g
Posted 2012-06-14T15:52:05.100
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This adobe “help” page also has the links at the bottom, and as of Dec 2014 those are working. (interestingly still macromedia.com domains. What is dead will never die™... =)
– Frank Nocke – 2014-12-13T09:45:16.1473This page and the download links will be decommissioned on January 22nd, 2016. the site now says. – n611x007 – 2015-12-06T06:11:51.220
1Adobe will soon no longer freely make the full downloadable version of the flash installer available. An account will be needed: "will be replaced by a new Adobe Flash Player distribution portal that will require a valid distribution license to access". When this happens people will either have to signup for a throw-away account, get it from BT, or uninstall flash when the next big vulnerability hits. – Underverse – 2016-04-09T14:13:50.757
1yes, it doesn't work anymore, try gras-double answer. – Conan – 2016-11-22T10:24:08.913
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For a long time I've been downloading the latest version of the full installers for the Adobe Flash Player with the FileHippo software update service.
– martineau – 2012-06-14T16:14:03.2472This question was not about debug version, but thank you for sharing a link. – jakub.g – 2013-02-17T11:31:01.490
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BTW, the debug version of standalone flashplayers are available at: http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html
– ryenus – 2014-03-21T10:45:41.92317
For a long time, I've been taking the offline installers from this page: Installation problems for Windows 7 and older (already mentioned in a comment by Fronker).
The links are always up-to-date, and it lets me get all plugin architectures (as of today ActiveX, NPAPI and PPAPI). The links are near the bottom, under the Still having problems? heading.
The above instructions are for Windows, but the same approach works for Mac OS X. Here's the Adobe help page with the offline installer links at the bottom: Installation Problems – Mac. This Adobe help forum page is also helpful: How to perform a "clean install" of Flash Player in Mac OS X.
Gras Double
Posted 2012-06-14T15:52:05.100
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Extra clafifiction: The Links are under “still having problems” – Frank Nocke – 2015-01-29T19:14:49.447
1thank you. I knew about the projectors, but this is exactly what I was looking for :D . I think that this deserves more votes - or at least to get its own question. This is valuable information. – Wyatt8740 – 2015-04-02T20:35:20.130
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Adobe has decommissioned the Distribution page, but here's another method that still works for now:
On the standard installation page https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ the "Install Now" button links to the download page https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/download/?installer=..., you should append &standalone=1 to the end, then it'll let you download the normal standalone offline installer.
P.S. Don't forget to disable "Optional offer" before copying the link.
user
Posted 2012-06-14T15:52:05.100
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This is the only relevant solution as of Jan 2017. – iTayb – 2017-01-25T09:42:31.987
This should be the accepted answer as of Apr 2017 – buld0zzr – 2017-04-01T17:25:14.983
1Tried today and doesn't work, sadly. – Lorenzo Donati -- Codidact.org – 2017-07-16T09:16:39.760
I got The page you requested could not be found on our web site. – hmj6jmh – 2017-11-13T16:23:43.587
@hmj6jmh, works for me. You could try again or use the solution by Gras Double, it works too. I've also added direct links now. – user – 2017-11-13T18:35:53.813
What works for you? Why would I try again when I have found the direct source of all installers, without an account, and have successfully installed the latest version? – hmj6jmh – 2017-11-13T18:57:43.663
It may have been prudent to actually point people to the answer that Gras Double authored, rather than update your answer based upon what he posted and merely thanking them afterwards. – Run5k – 2017-11-14T20:40:59.130
@Run5k: His answer doesn't contain direct links, that's why I decided to post them. But I agree that injecting them to my higher voted answer was probably a bit not fair, even though I gave credit to him. So I've moved the links to a separate answer now.
– user – 2017-11-14T22:37:33.1634
Sorry for bad English...
Most old answers doesn't work in 2016. So...
Here are direct download links to Adobe Flash Player Offline Installer for Windows (flash version 24.0.0.186, from 2016-12-20):
NPAPI (Firefox): https://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/24.0.0.186/install_flash_player.exe
PPAPI (Opera/Chromium): https://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/24.0.0.186/install_flash_player_ppapi.exe
ActiveX (InternetExplorer): https://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/24.0.0.186/install_flash_player_ax.exe
Uninstaller: https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/support/uninstall_flash_player.exe
An a Student
Posted 2012-06-14T15:52:05.100
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This worked today (2017-07-16). – Lorenzo Donati -- Codidact.org – 2017-07-16T09:34:48.553
1Today (2017-08-04) the links work if you change the version number part. So 24.0.0.186 must be changed to 26.0.0.137 which is the current version. Using the links as-is results in a 404 error. – Lauri Harpf – 2017-08-04T12:52:18.363
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If you download the flash player cab file for Microsoft System Center/SCCM, extract the xml file from the it, then you'll see the msi file listed in the xml file. There's a link for the activex installer and also the Mozilla/firefox/netscape plugin.
http://www.adobe.com/licensing/distribution/strategies/sms.html
Justin Goldberg
Posted 2012-06-14T15:52:05.100
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@GrasDouble provides the link to the page where you can find the installers.
Here are direct links from there to save you a click:
Flash Player for Internet Explorer - ActiveX
Flash Player for Firefox - NPAPI
Flash Player for Opera and Chromium-based browsers - PPAPI
user
Posted 2012-06-14T15:52:05.100
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I tried the link provided by jakub.g––http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution5.html. Though I logged in with my 'trial' account, I got No Adobe Flash Player distribution license found for this user. Please apply by visiting http://www.adobe.com/products/players/flash-player-distribution.html. They require all kinds of information to get an account.
Oddly enough, on the normal distribution site––https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/, there is a link at the bottom––Archived Flash Player versions: https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/archived-flash-player-versions.html, that actually has the full installers for up to the current version. The downloaded archive had every installer for every platform. I installed the one for OS X from the command line. sudo installer -verboseR -dumplog -pkg "Install Adobe Flash Player.pkg" -target /. Much faster and more reliable than the GUI.
hmj6jmh
Posted 2012-06-14T15:52:05.100
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See also http://superuser.com/questions/311763/where-can-i-find-a-stand-alone-flash-player-install?rq=1
– Cees Timmerman – 2012-08-12T16:36:46.353