[ES7.0.1] NoSuchFileException "plugin-descriptor.properties" when installing plugin "siren-federate-6.8.0-10.2.4.zip". Please advice how to get rid of this error

[cheriemilk]

Hi Team,

I am using below command to install plug in "siren":
`

elasticsearch-plugin install file:///C:/swinstall/siren-federate-6.8.0-10.2.4.zip

`

But I got following exception, how to get rid of this error and make the plug-in installed successfully?

Exception in thread "main" java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: C:\elkstack\elasticsearch-7.0.1-windows-x86_64\elasticsearch-7.0.1\plugins\.installing-3430737419288821434\plugin-descriptor.properties
        at sun.nio.fs.WindowsException.translateToIOException(WindowsException.java:79)
        at sun.nio.fs.WindowsException.rethrowAsIOException(WindowsException.java:97)
        at sun.nio.fs.WindowsException.rethrowAsIOException(WindowsException.java:102)
        at sun.nio.fs.WindowsFileSystemProvider.newByteChannel(WindowsFileSystemProvider.java:230)
        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:156)
        at org.elasticsearch.plugins.InstallPluginCommand.loadPluginInfo(InstallPluginCommand.java:714)
        at org.elasticsearch.plugins.InstallPluginCommand.installPlugin(InstallPluginCommand.java:793)
        at org.elasticsearch.plugins.InstallPluginCommand.install(InstallPluginCommand.java:776)
        at org.elasticsearch.plugins.InstallPluginCommand.execute(InstallPluginCommand.java:231)
        at org.elasticsearch.plugins.InstallPluginCommand.execute(InstallPluginCommand.java:216)
        at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:86)
        at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:124)
        at org.elasticsearch.cli.MultiCommand.execute(MultiCommand.java:77)
        at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:124)
        at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90)
        at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginCli.main(PluginCli.java:47)

[Christian_Dahlqvist]

It looks like you are trying to install a plugin for version 6.8.0 on a 7.0.1 cluster, which could very well be the issue. Try installing on a 6.8.0 cluster or get the correct version of the plugin.