# Error installing attachment plugin offline - missing x-pack-core\\plugin-descriptor.properties file

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-installing-attachment-plugin-offline-missing-x-pack-core-plugin-descriptor-properties-file/231903
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 10, 2020, 6:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-installing-attachment-plugin-offline-missing-x-pack-core-plugin-descriptor-properties-file/231903 "2020-05-10T18:57:22Z")
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### Author: ![ImaMacCan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c5a1d2/32.png) [@ImaMacCan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ImaMacCan)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2020, 6:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-installing-attachment-plugin-offline-missing-x-pack-core-plugin-descriptor-properties-file/231903/1 "2020-05-10T18:57:22Z")

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Command is:  
C:\APPS\elasticsearch-7.6.2\>bin\elasticsearch-plugin install file:///C:/install/ingest-attachment-7.6.2.zip

Error is:  
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not load plugin descriptor for module directory [x-pack-core]  
....  
Caused by: java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: C:\APPS\elasticsearch-7.6.2\modules\x-pack-core\plugin-descriptor.properties

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

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### Author: ![Luca\_Belluccini](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/luca_belluccini/32/33239_2.png) [@Luca\_Belluccini](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Luca_Belluccini)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2020, 11:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-installing-attachment-plugin-offline-missing-x-pack-core-plugin-descriptor-properties-file/231903/2 "2020-05-10T23:50:28Z")

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Hello @ImaMacCan

If you have internet access on the machine, you can use:

```auto
elasticsearch-plugin.bat install ingest-attachment

```

I've tried your command on my system using `cmd`:

```auto
Z:\Downloads\elasticsearch-7.6.2\bin>elasticsearch-plugin.bat install file:///Z:/Downloads/elasticsearch-7.6.2/bin/ingest-attachment-7.6.2.zip

```

Did you download the file from [https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch-plugins/ingest-attachment/ingest-attachment-7.6.2.zip](https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch-plugins/ingest-attachment/ingest-attachment-7.6.2.zip) ?

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### Author: ![ImaMacCan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c5a1d2/32.png) [@ImaMacCan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ImaMacCan)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2020, 3:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-installing-attachment-plugin-offline-missing-x-pack-core-plugin-descriptor-properties-file/231903/3 "2020-05-11T03:04:18Z")

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I am behind a corporate proxy that requires authentication, I need to install offline. Thanks.

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### Author: ![ImaMacCan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c5a1d2/32.png) [@ImaMacCan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ImaMacCan)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2020, 2:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-installing-attachment-plugin-offline-missing-x-pack-core-plugin-descriptor-properties-file/231903/5 "2020-05-11T14:18:49Z")

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I re-installed Elasticsearch and succesfully installed the plugin.

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2020, 2:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/error-installing-attachment-plugin-offline-missing-x-pack-core-plugin-descriptor-properties-file/231903/6 "2020-06-08T14:18:57Z")

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