# Elasticsearch5.2.1 install plugin by local failure **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [March 22, 2017, 7:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch5-2-1-install-plugin-by-local-failure/79546 "2017-03-22T07:45:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hexian55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f07891/32.png) [@hexian55](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hexian55)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 7:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch5-2-1-install-plugin-by-local-failure/79546/1 "2017-03-22T07:45:38Z")
Elasticsearch version: 5.2.1 Plugins installed: [search-guard-5-5.2.1-11,analysis-smartcn-5.2.1] JVM version: 1.8 OS version: centos7.0 Description of the problem including expected versus actual behavior: bin/elasticsearch-plugin install by local failure Steps to reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Provide logs (if relevant): Describe the feature: hi when I install plugin by local always failure . eg: install search-guard-5-5.2.1-11 and analysis-smartcn-5.2.1 I download search-guard from [https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/floragunn/search-guard-5/5.2.1-11/search-guard-5-5.2.1-11.zip](https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/floragunn/search-guard-5/5.2.1-11/search-guard-5-5.2.1-11.zip) bin/elasticsearch-plugin install file:///home/work/app/elasticsearch/plugins/search-guard-5-5.2.1-11.zip error log: -\> Downloading file:///home/work/app/elasticsearch/plugins/search-guard-5-5.2.1-11.zip [=================================================] 100% Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not load plugin descriptor for existing plugin [search-guard-5-5.2.1-11.zip]. Was the plugin built before 2.0? at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginsService.getPluginBundles(PluginsService.java:295) at org.elasticsearch.plugins.InstallPluginCommand.jarHellCheck(InstallPluginCommand.java:463) at org.elasticsearch.plugins.InstallPluginCommand.verify(InstallPluginCommand.java:444) at org.elasticsearch.plugins.InstallPluginCommand.install(InstallPluginCommand.java:486) at org.elasticsearch.plugins.InstallPluginCommand.execute(InstallPluginCommand.java:212) at org.elasticsearch.plugins.InstallPluginCommand.execute(InstallPluginCommand.java:195) at org.elasticsearch.cli.SettingCommand.execute(SettingCommand.java:54) at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:122) at org.elasticsearch.cli.MultiCommand.execute(MultiCommand.java:69) at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:122) at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:88) at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginCli.main(PluginCli.java:47) Caused by: java.nio.file.FileSystemException: /home/work/app/elasticsearch/plugins/search-guard-5-5.2.1-11.zip/plugin-descriptor.properties: Not a directory at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:91) at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:102) at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:107) at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.newByteChannel(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:214) at java.nio.file.Files.newByteChannel(Files.java:361) at java.nio.file.Files.newByteChannel(Files.java:407) at java.nio.file.spi.FileSystemProvider.newInputStream(FileSystemProvider.java:384) at java.nio.file.Files.newInputStream(Files.java:152) at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginInfo.readFromProperties(PluginInfo.java:86) at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginsService.getPluginBundles(PluginsService.java:292) ... 11 more when I unzip the file, ls commons-cli-1.3.1.jar netty-transport-4.1.7.Final.jar guava-19.0.jar plugin-descriptor.properties netty-buffer-4.1.7.Final.jar plugin-security.policy netty-codec-4.1.7.Final.jar search-guard-5-5.2.1-11.jar netty-codec-http-4.1.7.Final.jar search-guard-ssl-5.2.1-20.jar netty-common-4.1.7.Final.jar sgconfig netty-handler-4.1.7.Final.jar tools netty-resolver-4.1.7.Final.jar transport-netty4-client-5.2.1.jar cat plugin-descriptor.properties description=Provide access control related features for Elasticsearch 5 version=5.2.1-11 name=search-guard-5 classname=com.floragunn.searchguard.SearchGuardPlugin java.version=1.8 elasticsearch.version=5.2.1 When I install analysis-smartcn-5.2.1,It's the same error please help me.thx ---
**Author:** ![iGetIT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/278dde/32.png) [@iGetIT](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iGetIT)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 7:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch5-2-1-install-plugin-by-local-failure/79546/2 "2017-03-22T07:56:00Z")
I have met a similar situation before ! I removed elasticsearch dir, reinstall it ! It works ! So you can try this ---
**Author:** ![johtani](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/johtani/32/44956_2.png) [@johtani](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/johtani)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 7:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch5-2-1-install-plugin-by-local-failure/79546/3 "2017-03-22T07:57:27Z")
I think you put Zip file into ES\_HOME/plugins directory. You should move these Zip files to other directory, then run plugin install command. ---
**Author:** ![hexian55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f07891/32.png) [@hexian55](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hexian55)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2017, 8:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch5-2-1-install-plugin-by-local-failure/79546/4 "2017-03-22T08:03:19Z")
> [@johtani](#): > > I think you put Zip file into ES\_HOME/plugins directory.You should move these Zip files to other directory, then run plugin install command. thank you for your answer,it's ok , But I think you should be in the document to illustrate thx! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2017, 8:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch5-2-1-install-plugin-by-local-failure/79546/5 "2017-04-19T08:03:21Z")
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