I am trying to install a pulumi resource provider from a file but it seems that regardless of what I do, it's not accepting the file via the

file

parameter. e.g.

pulumi plugin install resource sample-resource-provider --file sample-resource-provider.tar.gz

error: 404 HTTP error fetching plugin from <https://api.github.com/repos/pgermishuys/sample-resource-provider/releases/latest>. If this is a private GitHub repository, try providing a token via the GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable. See: <https://github.com/settings/tokens>

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

Thanks Fraser!

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