# Manifest Error

**URL:** <https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/manifest-error/4108>\
**Category:** Archived\
**Tags:** roku-developer-program\
**Created:** [July 22, 2013, 10:31pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/manifest-error/4108 "2013-07-22T22:31:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![RIDGELINETV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@RIDGELINETV](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/RIDGELINETV)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 10:31pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/manifest-error/4108/1 "2013-07-22T22:31:11Z")

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I have downloaded the example files and can load the zipped files to my Roku box for testing. However, when I work with the source files and then create a zip file, I get an error saying “Install Failure: No manifest. Invalid package.”

This occurs even when I zip a source folder from the examples which I haven’t yet changed. I’m using a Mac… is there something incompatible?

Thanks,  
Jon C. Moon  
Ridgeline TV

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**Author:** ![destruk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@destruk](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/destruk)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 11:13pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/manifest-error/4108/2 "2013-07-22T23:13:08Z")

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“Every time I mess with the examples and re-zip them. It will not install on my roku. I get a “no manifest found” error even though there is one there. Any ideas? Thanks”

[viewtopic.php?f=34&t=36014&p=385245&hilit=zip#p385245](http://forums.roku.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=36014&p=385245&hilit=zip#p385245)

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**Author:** ![RIDGELINETV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@RIDGELINETV](https://forum.developer.roku.com/u/RIDGELINETV)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2013, 11:57pm UTC](https://forum.developer.roku.com/t/manifest-error/4108/3 "2013-07-22T23:57:16Z")

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Thanks, I knew it had to be something really, really simple… and it was!!!

Makes perfect sense. If you make a zip of the containing folder, then your Roku unit can’t find the files (they’re all in a folder and it doesn’t understand that). So going inside the folder, selecting all and sending to a zip is the way the zip file needs to be saved.

Thanks again…