unity 5 offline installer

Nasrinsh · April 30, 2015, 1:58pm

hi again every one .
the problem is right after i stated learning unity the newest version was released . now i don’t know if i should download the new version or not . the bigger problem is that i couldn’t find any offline installer for it !.
how much the new version is different with 4.6.1 version ? should i install the new version if so ,how can i install it offline ?
thank you all .

Schneider21 · April 30, 2015, 2:13pm

Unity 5 is quite a step up from 4.6, in my opinion. Especially considering with Unity 5, the free version has all the features of the paid version, like the profiler and advanced lighting options.

I’m not sure why you want an offline installer. Downloading a huge installer file or downloading a small installer that downloads for you are more or less the same thing… In any case, the online installer is your only option as far as I’m aware.

jhocking · April 30, 2015, 2:50pm

The auto-downloader actually downloads an offline installer and then deletes that right after it’s done. So if you copy the downloaded file before installation is finished, there now you have the offline installer! Kinda non-obvious but there you go.

(as for “why” I’m assuming it’s something like he wants to download the installer on one computer, and then transfer it to other computers on a USB memory stick.)

Schneider21 · April 30, 2015, 3:16pm

That makes sense, I guess. We take unlimited bandwidth for granted in the US, and that may not be his case.

Good info on finding the install file, @jhocking !

Ryiah · May 1, 2015, 12:10am

Or you can use the torrent to get the files.

http://netstorage.unity3d.com/unity/5a2e8fe35a68/unity-5.0.1f1.torrent

DVJy · September 26, 2015, 11:40am

reasons for offline installer

I have slow connection. it will take almost 7-8 hours to download all the files needed. plus if there is a power cut in that time period I have to download all of it again. with offline installer I won’t have those problems.
Online installer doesn’t have pause & resume button.
I don’t have unlimited bandwidth.
If the power cut doesn’t happen then there is a good chance that online installer gets stuck at some point & don’t download anything. I’ve got it stuck at 82% for past two hours.
I get connection problem frequently.

with all those problems I’m trying to download and install Unity for past 20 hours. Still no success.

Dear developers at Unity, what do you think all Unity users are from US only…?? with unlimited bandwidth & great speed…?? Last time I checked Unity was very much prepare to of almost all problems user face… no matter how minor the were.
Did you change your CEO ?

Kiwasi · September 26, 2015, 11:56am

I almost always grab an offline installer when I update. It’s downloadable under the additional downloads link on the download page.

Getting the file from the website takes a couple of hours. Transferring to to a USB and walking to another system is quick. Space to store old installers is cheap. Bandwidth is both slow and expensive.

Ryiah · September 27, 2015, 2:41am

Unity’s goal is democratization of game development, not trying to solve PEBCAK. They do have offline installers.

Marconi24 · October 26, 2015, 3:17pm

Hi. You may actually download the offline setup file for the latest version (Ver. 5.2.2) here:
https://unity3d.com/get-unity/download/archive

Just go to that page, choose your operating system and then select the UNITY EDITOR option. It’s almost 2GB in size.

jhocking · October 26, 2015, 6:00pm

That approach is much more straightforward than what I was doing

dante_ice_hp · October 28, 2015, 11:40pm

Marconi21 has the right of it after the website update. You can see below that it’s now missing offline installers:

Once you get to the Unity download archive, you get back your download options for the offline installer. Please note, it does not explicitly state that the installer is offline.

Ryiah · October 29, 2015, 9:18am

I noticed they had changed it as well and it does seem to have made it a little more obvious as we seem to have moved past the point of people not being able to find the page to people simply having problems downloading without a manager.

sadsack · October 30, 2015, 10:09pm

I do not put my game making computer on the net. I need to have a offline installer.

sadsack · October 31, 2015, 2:36am

maybe in your world

sveilleux1 · March 20, 2016, 2:43pm

The offline installer can be found in the archive section.

Ryiah · March 20, 2016, 9:00pm

Everything except documentation. Hope he enjoys guessing the APIs.

Ridwan_Mascode · March 25, 2016, 9:12pm

You Can Check this link, its working.

Ryiah · May 6, 2017, 5:51pm

Offline installers are now being linked in the release notes.

https://unity3d.com/unity/whats-new/unity-5.6.0

Also be wary of links that are hidden behind URL shorteners.

aidinz · May 15, 2017, 10:24pm

Thanks I didn’t know that. Sadly they are not available for 5.6.1f1 (as of time I’m posting) so here are some of the links for that version:

http://netstorage.unity3d.com/unity/2860b30f0b54/Windows64EditorInstaller/UnitySetup64-5.6.1f1.exe
http://netstorage.unity3d.com/unity/2860b30f0b54/TargetSupportInstaller/UnitySetup-Android-Support-for-Editor-5.6.1f1.exe
http://netstorage.unity3d.com/unity/2860b30f0b54/MacEditorInstaller/Unity-5.6.1f1.pkg
http://netstorage.unity3d.com/unity/2860b30f0b54/MacEditorTargetInstaller/UnitySetup-iOS-Support-for-Editor-5.6.1f1.pkg

You can find out other files’ links with combination of this post and the one before it, just swap “2860b30f0b54”.

ectarun · July 30, 2017, 10:29am

You can select Torrent from the drop down and download.