Installed Unity without hub version and now unity hub won't allow me to add module

Question

i installed unity 2019.3.10f without unity hub. Now i want to download modules such as android , sdk ,ndk and jdk (recommended ones) but hub does not give option to add module.

Unity version is latest same as hub but radio button is disabled

Answer 1

You can re-enable the option 'Add Modules':

Windows
1- go to C:\Users\{USER_NAME}\AppData\Roaming\UnityHub

MacOS
1- go to ~/Library/Application/Support/UnityHub

2- open editors.json file.
3- change "manual":true to "manual":false
4- kill the UnityHub and restart it. Note: Do not forget is stays in the tray on Windows.

Answer 2

So, i searched and found out that if you don't download unity from unity hub you cannot add modules from unity hub. I didn't expected that but that's how it works. So, i had to uninstall the old one and then install via unity hub. The three dot option show modules only if its downloaded via unity hub. In short if you want unity hub's help you would have to play by unity hub's rules. That might be inconvenient to some extent.