Install Electros LaunchPad

Electros LaunchPad is the Elemento local control plane for VMs, AI models, and marketplace services. The GUI is Electros LaunchPad; the CLI binary is elp and the daemon is elpd.

Prerequisites

macOS

• Recent macOS (Sonoma or later recommended)
• Apple silicon or Intel; QEMU / Hypervisor.framework for VMs
• Enough free disk for OS images and model artifacts (tens of GB if you download several models)

Linux

• KVM available for VMs
• Build or install from your Elemento package channel / source (see the repository README)

Windows

• Windows 10/11 Pro or Enterprise with Hyper-V, or VirtualBox as an alternate driver
• Installer from GitHub Releases when published

Install

From releases

1. Download the installer for your OS from GitHub Releases.
2. Complete the installer; allow administrator prompts for the daemon / privileged helper.
3. Launch Electros LaunchPad from Applications (macOS) or the Start menu (Windows).

From source (developers)

Follow README.md and LOCAL_DEV.md in the repository. Local data commonly lives under the app support directory (for example ~/Library/Application Support/elp-dev/ on macOS).

Verify

GUI

1. Open Electros LaunchPad.
2. Sidebar footer should show All systems healthy.
3. Open Installers — llmfit, llama.cpp, and MLX should read Ready when AI features are enabled.

CLI

elp version
elp find

Coexistence with Multipass

LaunchPad is designed to run alongside stock Multipass (multipass / multipassd) with separate names and paths. In Settings → General, Show Multipass instances controls whether Multipass VMs appear in the LaunchPad UI.

Next

• Tutorial — first VM and first model
• Getting started — shell tour