After uninstalled a Stand-alone version of Flex Builder and installing Adobe CS5 Premium which comes bundled with Flash Builder, I was treated to this lovely error message when trying to debug an app that had previously worked fine.
Installed Adobe Flash Player Is Not a Debugger
Flash Builder cannot locate the required debugger version of Adobe Flash Player. You might need to install the debugger version of the Flash Player or reinstall Flash Builder.
Whoa there Adobe
I like to use IE as my default debugger because I never use it to browse and along with the above error, I got some funky message about IE can’t install it’s lame Active X plugin because you’ve got another version of Adobe Flash Player installed.
Well great. So after searching up a storm and finding nothing concrete, I came across an Adobe tech-note that said run the uninstaller from the command line and use the /clean option.
After trying that (and re-booting, I guess that’s crucial for IE) everything’s back to working. When installing the next version of the Flash Player and related plug-ins nothing will choke because everything’s been wiped out.
If you need the uninstaller link, here’s the always current version – http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/current/uninstall_flash_player.exe
