Package install error: searching package root dir: no unique root dir in archive

[EstevanTH]

Hey there,

I had an issue while installing the platform sduino:stm8, in any version (the current last version being 0.5).

Characteristics:

• OS: Windows 11 x86-64
• Arduino IDE 2.1.1

Installation failed with:

C:\Program Files\Arduino IDE\resources\app\node_modules\arduino-ide-extension\build>arduino-cli core install "sduino:stm8@0.5" --additional-urls "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tenbaht/sduino/master/package_sduino_stm8_index.json"
Tool sduino:STM8Tools@2019.02.05 already installed
Tool sduino:sdcc@build.11242 already installed
Téléchargement des paquets...
sduino:stm8@0.5 sduino:stm8@0.5 déjà téléchargé
Installing platform sduino:stm8@0.5...
Error during install: Cannot install platform: installing platform sduino:stm8@0.5: searching package root dir: no unique root dir in archive, found 'C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Arduino15\tmp\package-4125649767\STM8S_StdPeriph_Driver' and 'C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Arduino15\tmp\package-4125649767\cores'

Opening the archive with 7-zip, I saw inside that the root directory inside of the tar archive is named .. This misled the installation procedure.

So I rebuilt the archive, putting all the content inside of a single root directory sduino-core-0.5. I modified my local package_sduino_stm8_index.json to make the size and the SHA-256 correspond with the new values. Hurray, it works!

C:\Program Files\Arduino IDE\resources\app\node_modules\arduino-ide-extension\build>arduino-cli core install "sduino:stm8@0.5" --additional-urls "package_sduino_stm8_index.json"
Tool sduino:STM8Tools@2019.02.05 already installed
Tool sduino:sdcc@build.11242 already installed
Téléchargement des paquets...
sduino:stm8@0.5 sduino:stm8@0.5 déjà téléchargé
Installing platform sduino:stm8@0.5...
Configuration de la plateforme....
Platform sduino:stm8@0.5 installed

Thank you!

Cheers ❤️

[cintix]

I have the same issue on both my OSX and Windows 11

[mf0o]

Thanks Estevan.

Facing the same issue on macOS and Arduino IDE 2.2.1.
Thanks to your precise description I could replicate the fix fast and installed the package successfully.

Thank you a lot!