Title: update WP// upload theme FAIL
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# update WP// upload theme FAIL

 *  [BorisBresil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/borisbresil/)
 * (@borisbresil)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-wp-upload-theme-fail/)
 * Hi, I need to install a new theme for my wp site but when I try to do it I get
   this message “Incompatible Archive. PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find
   End of Central Dir Record signature
 * or even this one
 * “The uploaded file could not be moved to?home?artyscre?public_html/wp-content/
   uploads/2012/04
 * So I try to update the vervion of WP to 3.3.1 and got this message
 * “Downloading update from [http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.3.1-no-content.zip&#8230](http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.3.1-no-content.zip&#8230);
   
   Download failed.: Failed writing body (95 != 1448) Installation Failed”
 * Can anyone help me to clear the situation?
 * Thanks
 * BB

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 *  [ArtintheGarden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/artinthegarden/)
 * (@artinthegarden)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-wp-upload-theme-fail/#post-2697051)
 * I tried to update as well and received this message:
 * Downloading update from [http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.3.1.zip…](http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.3.1.zip…)
 * Unpacking the update…
 * Warning: copy(/homepages/18/d412430282/htdocs/app365656893/wp-admin/includes/
   update-core.php) [function.copy]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in/
   homepages/18/d412430282/htdocs/app365656893/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-filesystem-
   direct.php on line 200
 * Could not copy files.
 * Installation Failed
 *  [ArtintheGarden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/artinthegarden/)
 * (@artinthegarden)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-wp-upload-theme-fail/#post-2697062)
 * I’m also receiving this error when I try to install different themes.
 * Fatal error: Call to undefined function is_multi_author() in /homepages/18/d412430282/
   htdocs/app365656893/wp-content/themes/skirmish/inc/tweaks.php on line 29
 * Does anyone know how to fix it?

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## Tags

 * [incompatible archive](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/incompatible-archive/)
 * [upload](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upload/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [ArtintheGarden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/artinthegarden/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-wp-upload-theme-fail/#post-2697062)
 * Status: not resolved

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