# Problems installing via Composer

**URL:** <https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/t/problems-installing-via-composer/20084>\
**Category:** Beaver Builder\
**Tags:** composer\
**Created:** [March 19, 2026, 9:58pm UTC](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/t/problems-installing-via-composer/20084 "2026-03-19T21:58:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![taupecat](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/user_avatar/community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/taupecat/32/4810_2.png) [@taupecat](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/u/taupecat)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2026, 9:58pm UTC](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/t/problems-installing-via-composer/20084/1 "2026-03-19T21:58:52Z")

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I’m getting the following error when trying to install via composer:

```auto
Package operations: 1 install, 0 updates, 0 removals

Downloading beaver-builder/bb-plugin-starter (2.10.1.3)

Installing beaver-builder/bb-plugin-starter (2.10.1.3): Extracting archive
Failed to extract beaver-builder/bb-plugin-starter: (9) ‘/usr/bin/unzip’ -qq ‘[…]/vendor/composer/tmp-dff41fb0a023bdcea8336557f44eff6d.zip’ -d ‘[…]/vendor/composer/7d9269cf’

[[…]/vendor/composer/tmp-dff41fb0a023bdcea8336557f44eff6d.zip]
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of […]/vendor/composer/tmp-dff41fb0a023bdcea8336557f44eff6d.zip or
[…]/vendor/composer/tmp-dff41fb0a023bdcea8336557f44eff6d.zip.zip, and cannot find […]/vendor/composer/tmp-dff41fb0a023bdcea8336557f44eff6d.zip.ZIP, period.

The archive may contain identical file names with different capitalization (which fails on case insensitive filesystems)
Unzip with unzip command failed, falling back to ZipArchive class
Install of beaver-builder/bb-plugin-starter failed

In ZipDownloader.php line 222:

‘[…]/vendor/composer/tmp-dff41fb0a023bdcea8336557f44eff6d.zip’ is not a zip archive.

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**Author:** ![pross](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/user_avatar/community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/pross/32/883_2.png) [@pross](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/u/pross)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2026, 12:56pm UTC](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/t/problems-installing-via-composer/20084/2 "2026-03-23T12:56:58Z")

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You are getting that error because you do not have the “starter” subscription. You have the “standard” subscription.

I tested your key with a valid composer.json and it installed with zero issues.

So swap out the word starter with the word standard in composer.json

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/uploads/default/original/2X/9/9db1b183a7ea1efa26199a2a2b3511d742473dae.png) [@system](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2026, 12:57am UTC](https://community.wpbeaverbuilder.com/t/problems-installing-via-composer/20084/3 "2026-03-25T00:57:29Z")

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