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try adding a version to that
```pulumi plugin install resource sample-resource-provider 1.0.0 --file sample-resource-provider.tar.gz```
We should give a better error message here, I'll fix that up today for the next release

<https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/pull/10271> will be fixed for the next release