I live in an area with limited internet connection and constant power cuts and thus downloading the binaries from epic launcher is quite hard.
I’m authorized to the code on GitHub but my unreliable internet makes downloading straight from GitHub impossible.
I only intend to use UE5 for educational purposes so any relatively new release would suffice.
So is there any way I could get an alternative download server?
You can use this website to manually download the folders individually-
https://download-directory.github.io/
It may not be the most efficient way, but you’ll be able to download it in chunks.
For whatever it’s worth, you might find it easier to clone just the most recent release without getting all the rest of the Github repo. That’ll give you the source code and be a lot smaller download than trying to sync the whole repo. You can do that with…
git clone --depth 1 --recursive git@github.com:<user>/UnrealEngine.git -b release
…where <user> is the Github user you cloned the UnrealEngine repository as. That will pull the latest release branch in your repo, which (if it is up-to-date) should be 5.1.1.
ALTERNATIVELY, if that does not work, you can always have someone use git-bundle to generate a bundle for you and put that up on Dropbox or somewhere that supports resuming interrupted downloads. (A git bundle is a frozen version of the repository as a single file, which you can then use to restore the repository on another machine.)
If a shallow clone doesn’t work for you (the --depth=1 example), post here again and I imagine someone can make a 5.1.1 git bundle for you.
@rokenrock @Packetdancer
thanks alot for your help, I will try both methods soon
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