I assume that setting ES_HOME to /home/elasticsearch/ is the culprit. This means you are expecting your installation to be there, including the libraries.
You can verify by setting set -x in /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/plugin in the second line and see which paths are being used when before the plugin manager is executed.
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