Can't install Flash Player on Tiger

[pyritz]

A few months ago, I bought a 17" powerbook. It's running Tiger 10.4.2. I'm still trying to work out a few bugs, the most frustrating being that I cannot install Flash Player 7.

I downloaded the installer and ran it. It goes through the installation process, gets down to 1 item to install, and then gives me the message:

Error creating file.
1008:5,-5000 Access denied error

Then I press okay, and get:

You do not have enough access
privileges for this installation.

I also have Tiger running on my two (very old CRT) iMacs, and have had no problem installing Flash Player. Any ideas?

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Nathan Pyritz

http://www.pyritzdesign.com

 

[ObviousTroll]

Have you tried repairing disk permissions?

 

[pyritz]

I did try repairing permissions and it didn't help. Someone on the Flash Forum suggested logging in as root and then installing Flash Player, and that worked.

Why I had to do that on my PowerBook and not my iMacs, I don't know

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Nathan Pyritz

http://www.pyritzdesign.com

 

[ObviousTroll]

Hrmph. If logging in as root solved the problem then permissions were definitely at the root of it. I wonder why the repair couldn't solve it?

 

[deputydoofy]

This may sound like a stupid but question but is your "regular" account set up as admin? I might be asking the obvious, but it couldn't hurt to check. I have yet to need root for anything on my machines.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/doofymusic