How do I Install Flash Player 10 without Adobe Download Manager?

Question

How do I get Flash Player 10 (on Firefox) without installing the Adobe Download Manager?

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 06 '09 at 12:14

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The important bit is to not allow the download manager (Adobe DLM) to run, but instead click the link where it says 'If it does not start, click here to download'.

answered Nov 06 '09 at 12:14

HappyDog

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score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 21 '10 at 12:17

Firefox http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player.exe

Internet Explorer http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_ax.exe

*Note: Just add _ax to the file name and it will download the activex version for Internet Explorer.

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 04 '11 at 19:49

Use Adobe's public ftp site to download without the download manager DLM

For example, flash is here

ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/flash/

and acrobat reader is here

ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader/

Then simply choose version and operating system to get to the actual files

score 3 · Answer 4 · edited Jan 06 '12 at 08:33

Version 10.1: Direct download here

You need to shut down IE and/or FF, etc. when you install it. In my case I had to reboot for changes to take effect.

I think you have to use the DLM, but make sure you are still running firefox, wait for it to download. When you are asked t close firefox, search on your computer for recently changed files (name may be different): install_flash_player_64bit.exe (it's in a temp folder). Copy this to a different directory. You now have a standalone installer file. I tried opening the DLM installer w/ 7zip, but the contents are encrypted, so this was the easiest way.