Installing Software for Groups of User Accounts

What is the best way to install software such as Photoshop plug-ins so you only have to enter the serial number once but allow that apply to all users in a group?
I created 3 accounts - 2 admin, 1 standard - and would like to be able to install software for all of them at one time.
Thanks for any feedback.

Yeah, and that design of OSX has been around a decade now. It is just plain selfishness on the part of the developers to make it as hard as possible for multiple users on one computer to use software. I guess they think it helps prevent piracy, but it only seems to alienate customers and promote their own selfishness. Last time I checked I thought people are given licenses based on one computer at a time. 500 people cannot use one computer at a time, so why does it matter if other users have access to the same software. The point is it is all so pointless.

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Hello,
We just purchased a iMac, running OS 10.4.7. We set up two user accounts, both with admin status.
The problem we're encountering is that when we load new software, it's only appearing and available on the account it was installed under? Same with drivers, etc. that we download from the internet, for e.g., Media Player and bug fixes. Just installed a printer with software, and I imagine it won't be in the second user's account.
What are we doing wrong? Was it a bad idea to set up two users? I don't want to duplicate installs for each account, since we don't want to use up disk space needlessly.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!

There is an Application and Library folder at the root level of your hard drive. There is also a Library folder in your user folders (Harddrive:Users/[username]/Library) and sometimes an Application folder.
The default for installation that is going to be available to all users of a machine is the root level Applications or Library folders. Applications or files in your user folders are only available to that user (which can be particularly useful depending on the situation - but isn't your current concern).
It sounds like you are installing into the user directories. I would expect that most installers should take care of things and use the root level directories by default but, to the extent that you can control the install location, you should make sure it is the root level folders rather than your user folders.
For applications you can just drag any that are in your user folders to the root level folder (which should also be the one you access from the finder sidebar). Drivers and the like are more complicated and it would probably be safer to try reinstalling those and making sure they install for all users rather than individual users.

Trouble installing software on a non-administrator account

I am the Administrator on the family iMac desktop. My daughter has a Nikon camera and I am trying to install the software for her camera while she is logged into her account. When I go to install the software, I am prompted by the Mac to enter my Admin name and password. Then a few secs later another msg comes up prompted by the software stating that Administrator or higher level access privileges are needed.......
Huh???
What does an administrator need to do in order to install software for a non-admin account? Do I need to log into my own account as an administrator to do this?
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Administrator privileges are normally required to install software. That's a Mac OS X security measure. I suggest booting into your account and installing it from there, globally, so all users can affectively use them.

Safari 5 seems to have slowed the OS for my Admin user account

After installing Safari 5 (now 5.0.2), and after a few Safari hangs and force quits, my OS for my Admin user account has become slow. Opening folders and seeing the contents is slow; moving small documents from folder to folder is very slow; cutting and pasting text in a MS Word document sometimes takes two or three tries, as the text highlighting cursor function has slowed. (Interestingly, Safari's basic click and pageload functions seem to work fairly normally, but with the same highlighting and copy/paste slowness that affects all other programs. Also, my mouse pointer moves quickly as per normal.)
However, I created a new user account as a test comparison and found that the new user account is NOT slow. It works perfectly fine.
Any thoughts on what I should do? Is my original Admin account corrupted? Is it possible to simply move my personal files (Word docs, iTunes songs, bookmarks) to the new user account and then delete my original Administrator account?
What should I do? Thanks everyone.

Well, it was worth a shot.
How full is your hard drive? Always a good starting point for diagnosing slowdowns.
Sometimes running periodic maintenance scripts helps, because it cleans some caches that a Safari reset won't. The scripts are supposed to run automatically in the wee hours of the morning when most people are computing, but the problem is that they only run if the computer is on and not sleeping. Not too realistic.
This article in an excellent series of "keep the Apple sweet" articles talks about the scripts and how to run them manually:
http://thexlab.com/faqs/maintscripts.html
They are less important in later incarnations of Mac OSX as some o the tasks they do were shifted to start-up, but doing them is worth trying.
Also use Activity Monitor to check for a runaway background process. It's possible that this could affect only one user account. If you've not used Activity Monitor before, make sure you change its "Show" option from the default of "My Processes" to "All Processes" or you might miss some nasty troublemakers. Also click in the "%CPU" column header to sort by processor usage. With no user apps running, (basically an idling computer) no single process should demand more than ~5 percent of the processor. Let AM display for a few minutes while you watch it, as some processes toggle back and forth as they activate.
Running any anti-virus software? Most does more Mac-harm than Mac-good.
Keep us posted!
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Cannot install software for printer m521dn

Hello!
I have a problem, trying to install software for HP lj pro m521dn. Tried to use both Full Solution and basic print and scan drivers installer. OS is Win7 enterprise x64. Connection with printer is network. When installing, progress bar reaches 14% and reporting "Fatal error don't allows you to use this programm. Press OK to abort" (personal translate from russian, original message is "Фатальная ошибка не позволяет использовать продукт. Нажмите да чтобы выполнить отмену"). This trouble occures on multiple PC's, but not on all of them (average on 4 of 7). The only solution I found is full reinstallation of OS and installing software on fresh Windows without any drivers installed, except drivers for network card. Can you tell me something useful about this trouble?
P.S. Sorry for my bad English.

Hi @Ranlom
I suspect your question would be better answered in the HP Enterprise Business Community, as your HP Printer is a commercial model.
 
My technical expertise is with consumer products and software, I am sure the commercial folks would be happy to help if you re-post your question for them to answer. The HP Enterprise Business Community is an HP Forum designed for the Commercial and Enterprise customers to help one another. I am sure you will find some HP folks there to help too.
 
Click here to view the Printing and Digital Imaging. When the page opens you will see the option to 'Log in' or 'Register Now' on the right. The commercial forums are separate from the consumer boards, thus you will need to register if you don't already have a commercial account.
 
You may find the HP LaserJet Pro M521 Multifunction Printer series page helpful while you wait for somebody in the commercial Forum to respond to your inquiry.
 
Best of luck.
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Hello. I am a new mac user and still learning, beginning to get frustrated...I am trying to install software for my older but perfectly functioning Samsung printer, ML-1430. I had the orginial software cd which would not work, was not supported I guess. My printer is not listed when I search for the software. I just updated the software on my macbook pro, so it is presently OS X 10.8.5. If anyone can help I would really appreciate it. I am really hoping I can use my printer, can't afford to buy a new one and it works so well. Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

After searching around, it would seem that they do not supprt that device any longer. (This is not all that un common these dats unfortunatly).
But you can try contacting Samsung here and see if they will offer any support:
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/contact

Document is licensed for a different user account - After Registering

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I shall save it somewhere VERY safe now in case this happens again …
You have made an old man very happy and saved me from worrying that senile decay had suddenly set in. (I was 70 last week so you might understand the situation from that.)
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