Generating new plugin doesn't work

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I was just trying to generate a new plugin for my matomo because I wanted to generate some custom reports, but it didn’t work.

This was the response i got:

WARNING [2020-05-18 08:39:59] 21717  /var/www/html/X/plugins/CoreConsole/Commands/GeneratePluginBase.php(56): Warning - file_put_contents(/var/www/html/X/plugins/X/CHANGELOG.md): failed to open stream: No such file or directory - Matomo 3.13.5 - Please report this message in the Matomo forums: https://forum.matomo.org (please do a search first as it might have been reported already)
WARNING [2020-05-18 08:39:59] 21717  /var/www/html/X/plugins/CoreConsole/Commands/GeneratePluginBase.php(56): Warning - file_put_contents(/var/www/html/X/plugins/X/X.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory - Matomo 3.13.5 - Please report this message in the Matomo forums: https://forum.matomo.org (please do a search first as it might have been reported already)
WARNING [2020-05-18 08:39:59] 21717  /var/www/html/X/plugins/CoreConsole/Commands/GeneratePluginBase.php(56): Warning - file_put_contents(/var/www/html/X/plugins/X/README.md): failed to open stream: No such file or directory - Matomo 3.13.5 - Please report this message in the Matomo forums: https://forum.matomo.org (please do a search first as it might have been reported already)
WARNING [2020-05-18 08:39:59] 21717  /var/www/html/X/plugins/CoreConsole/Commands/GeneratePluginBase.php(56): Warning - file_put_contents(/var/www/html/X/plugins/X/config/config.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory - Matomo 3.13.5 - Please report this message in the Matomo forums: https://forum.matomo.org (please do a search first as it might have been reported already)
WARNING [2020-05-18 08:39:59] 21717  /var/www/html/X/plugins/CoreConsole/Commands/GeneratePluginBase.php(56): Warning - file_put_contents(/var/www/html/X/plugins/X/config/tracker.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory - Matomo 3.13.5 - Please report this message in the Matomo forums: https://forum.matomo.org (please do a search first as it might have been reported already)
WARNING [2020-05-18 08:39:59] 21717  /var/www/html/X/plugins/CoreConsole/Commands/GeneratePluginBase.php(56): Warning - file_put_contents(/var/www/html/X/plugins/X/docs/faq.md): failed to open stream: No such file or directory - Matomo 3.13.5 - Please report this message in the Matomo forums: https://forum.matomo.org (please do a search first as it might have been reported already)
WARNING [2020-05-18 08:39:59] 21717  /var/www/html/X/plugins/CoreConsole/Commands/GeneratePluginBase.php(56): Warning - file_put_contents(/var/www/html/X/plugins/X/docs/index.md): failed to open stream: No such file or directory - Matomo 3.13.5 - Please report this message in the Matomo forums: https://forum.matomo.org (please do a search first as it might have been reported already)
WARNING [2020-05-18 08:39:59] 21717  /var/www/html/X/plugins/CoreConsole/Commands/GeneratePluginBase.php(56): Warning - file_put_contents(/var/www/html/X/plugins/X/plugin.json): failed to open stream: No such file or directory - Matomo 3.13.5 - Please report this message in the Matomo forums: https://forum.matomo.org (please do a search first as it might have been reported already)

Plugin GoMatch 0.1.0 generated.
Our developer guides will help you developing this plugin, check out https://developer.matomo.org/guides
To see a list of available generators execute ./console list generate
Enjoy!

Error: error or warning logs detected, exit 1

When I try to activate the plugin it says that the Plugin cannot be found in the filesystem in plugins/ directory.

Can anybody help?

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The reason is that in the download version on matomo.org these plugins are removed. When you download the version from Github all plugins are automatically installed and creating a plugin is no problem.

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I created a dummy plugin, but matomo can’t see it to activate it.

./console generate:plugin --name=“MyPlugin” //creates MyPlugin in plugins
./console plugin:activate MyPlugin //doesn’t see MyPlugin
//also cannot see MyPlugin via the gui

I installed the developer files via Composer, as per instructions here:
https://developer.matomo.org/guides/getting-started-part-1