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docs: update manually installing plugins docs

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The installing plugins docs had information on manually installing
plugins that was misleading a bit, so we update that section with this
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Lucas Bajolet
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@@ -70,15 +70,19 @@ pinning plugin versions for build reproducibility. Refer to the [`packer` block
## Manually install plugins using the CLI
You can use the `packer plugins install` command to manually install remote plugins. Include the `--path` flag and specify a local source so that Packer automatically calculates the SHA256SUM file and installs the files into the Packer plugin directory:
You can use the `packer plugins install` command to manually install plugin binaries.
Use the `--path` flag to specify a local source. Packer then automatically calculates the SHA256SUM file and installs the files into the Packer plugin directory:
```shell-session
$ packer plugins install --path <path-to-downloaded-extracted-binary> <hostname>/<namespace>/<plugin-name>
$ packer plugins install --path <path-to-downloaded-extracted-binary> <hostname>/<namespace>/<plugin-name>
```
The following example installs the `happycloud` plugin from GitHub:
The following example installs the `happycloud` plugin from a locally-sourced binary:
```shell-session
$ unzip packer-plugin-happycloud.zip
$ ls -l
-rwxr-xr-x [...] happycloud
$ packer plugins install --path happycloud github.com/hashicorp/happycloud
```