# Missing plugin-descriptor.properties

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-plugin-descriptor-properties/261650>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 20, 2021, 12:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-plugin-descriptor-properties/261650 "2021-01-20T12:56:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![TimWardFS](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timwardfs/32/65108_2.png) [@TimWardFS](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimWardFS)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 12:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-plugin-descriptor-properties/261650/1 "2021-01-20T12:56:07Z")

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Experimenting with an offline install of [https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch-plugins/repository-s3/repository-s3-7.10.0.zip](https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch-plugins/repository-s3/repository-s3-7.10.0.zip) into an Elasticsearch which says it's 7.10.0 using the command

sudo bin/elasticsearch-plugin install file:///aric/elasticsearch/plugins/snapshot/repository-s3-7.10.0.zip

results in failure with

Caused by: java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: /aric/elasticsearch/plugins/snapshot/plugin-descriptor.properties

The .zip file is world readable. How should I do an offline install of this plugin?

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**Author:** ![TimWardFS](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timwardfs/32/65108_2.png) [@TimWardFS](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimWardFS)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2021, 1:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-plugin-descriptor-properties/261650/2 "2021-01-21T13:13:20Z")

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Ah. It turns out to be a bad idea to attempt to do an offline install with the zip file somewhere in the file hierarchy below what Elasticsearch thinks is its plugin directory (which I'd done by accident). And yes, this _is_ documented if you look hard enough.

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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:** [February 18, 2021, 1:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/missing-plugin-descriptor-properties/261650/3 "2021-02-18T13:13:21Z")

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