Problem using tar on Windows

Software Support
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Greetings,

I am using OJS 3.1.2.1 on Windows 2016 server with XAMPP. When I try to add a plugin by going to Settings → Website → Installed Plugins and clicking on Upload a New Plugin, selecting a zip file and clicking Upload, I see a green check mark next to the zip file name. Then I click on Save and the "The tar command is not available. Please correctly configure it in your “config.inc.php”’ notification appears.

As suggested by @jnugent here, I downloaded Tar for Windows and added this to config.inc.php:

tar = “C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin\tar.exe”

with and without brackets, but I still see the same notification about Tar command not being available. What else should I try?

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Hi @Lolekbolek,

Is the archive that you are trying to upload in tar gz format?

3

Thank you, @Vitaliy. It is actually a zip file from here: https://codeload.github.com/pkp/oaiJats/zip/master .

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You can upload latest tar archive from here: Releases · pkp/oaiJats · GitHub or download master branch directly though Git (git clone https://github.com/pkp/oaiJats.git) although I’m not sure if the latter will work correctly