Install Button 5.6 does nothing

[BRGEzedeRocco]

HI @TOYSTORYLAB ,
First, try running the Epic Games Launcher as administrator.
It’s a bit odd that you still see version 5.6.0, since on my end it already shows 5.6.1, which replaced the previous build with the hotfix

5.6.1 Hotfix Released

Hotfix 5.6.1 is here - check out this latest version with over 270 new fixes and updates! Please feel free to share feedback and discuss the current version in the release topic, Unreal Engine 5.6 Released. If you experience a bug with the 5.6.1 Hotfix, please follow the How to Report a Bug guide to report it on the Bug Submission Form . Future notes to consider: Beginning with UE 5.7, Linux will transition from SDL2 to SDL3. Users with customizations to SDL2 code who are interested in swit…

There’s also a thread that talks about this topic.

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I work for a University and Unreal 5 has a fairly major problem, from what I can tell. You can’t download past versions. Imagine your studio/uni has a specific version installed. You are working for months/years and Epic updates to 5.0.4, or 5.1. Your project is on 5.0.3, but you don’t update (common in pipes and studios). Well, if one of your workers/students has a hardware failure and needs a new PC, they are in serious trouble. They can’t get the previous version from Epic. There are, BAD,…

I also found a post where people shared several possible solutions to the install button issue ,maybe one of them will help:

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Hey, so as the title says, I recently moved to a new computer that I used the engine on without any issues, but now can’t install Unreal Engine at all. The Epic launcher has all installation options greyed out, tried reinstalling, repairing, even doing a fresh windows install since this was the only thing installed on it so far, but nothing works. Some suggested to just wait, but I left it open for a good couple of hours and nothing changed. [347608-capture.png]

Hope it helps!