# Install Button 5.6 does nothing

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**Category:** Feedback & Requests\
**Tags:** unreal-engine\
**Created:** [August 26, 2025, 5:01pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/install-button-5-6-does-nothing/2651168 "2025-08-26T17:01:03Z")\
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Unfortunately still no progress…

So I decided to install UE via GitHub Source.

Has its cons though:

> [@How to strip down Unreal GitHub Source](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/how-to-strip-down-github-source/2652976):
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> Not sure whether this is the correct place to ask, but IMHO it seemed to be the most obvious place. I had/have (as Launcher still does not work) quite an Odyssee the last days… See this thread: [https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/install-button-5-6-does-nothing/2651168](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/install-button-5-6-does-nothing/2651168) As Support only gave me standard solutions which I already have done, such as Clear the Epic Games Launcher cache Run the Epic Games Launcher as an administrator Reinstall the Epic Games Launcher … I decided to try to inst…

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