Installation

UAC Launch Control is available for Windows, macOS and Linux.

Windows

1. Download the setup file from the releases.
   Scroll down to Assets and find the Windows installer — ending with .exe.

2. When download has finished, double click the downloaded file, follow any on screen instructions and the installer will take care of the rest.

Windows run warning

Please note that you will get a warning about “Windows prevented an application from running” when running an unsigned .exe file on your system.

You will need to click Run anyway to be able to install the application.

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macOS

1. Download the dmg-image from the releases.
   Under Assets find the release ending with .dmg.

2. When the download finishes, double click the .dmg file to mount the image.

3. Drag-and-drop the UAC Launch Control app-icon to the Applications directory.

“UAC Launch Control Is Damaged and Can’t Be Opened. You Should Move It To The Trash”

This is Apple’s way of saying “this app is not from our App Store”.

If you experience this error when opening UAC Launch Control, you need to unquarantine it.

You can unquarantine it by:

1. Open a Terminal window
   CMD+Space and type Terminal, and hit Enter
2. Type or paste the following command before hitting Enter

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/UAC Launch Control.app"

3. Re-open UAC Launch Control.

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A zip version is also available for macOS if you prefer.

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Linux

On Linux you have different options, depending on your Linux distro and what you want.

The recommended way is to use the AppImage from the Releases page, as this is a selfcontained and selfupdating file, that requires no installation.

1. Scroll down to Assets and click the .AppImage version.
   This is a complete standalone file which requires no installation and gets updates from within the application itself.
2. When the download has finished, simply double click the AppImage file to open the application.

Ubuntu/Debian/PopOS/Mint

If you don’t want to use the AppImage version you can use the .deb package on all Debian/Ubuntu derived distros.

1. Download the .deb from the Releases.

2. Open a terminal, and install with apt:

sudo apt install /PATH/TO/DOWNLOAD/uac-launch-control_VERSION_amd64.deb

If you are unsure about /PATH/TO/DOWNLOAD/ you can simply type the first part of the command, and drag-and-drop the file into the terminal window, then hit enter.
*Take note of what version you’re downloading, as this number changes on each update.

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Arch/CachyOS/Manjaro

A prebuilt binary has been released on the AUR, that always follows the builds here on GitHub.

1. Install with any AUR-helper, i.e yay or paru.

# If you use yay
yay -S uac-launch-control-bin

# If you use paru
paru uac-launch-control-bin

Alternatively you can also download the PKGBUILD from the AUR and install it manually, if you don’t use a helper.

1. Clone the repo with git:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/uac-launch-control-bin.git

2. Change directory to the AUR repo:

cd uac-launch-control-bin

3. Run the build command:

makepkg -si

and just follow the on-screen instructions.

Manually building the application

You can also download the entire repo and build the application manually.

See the Getting Started section of the For Developers guide for instructions.