Pencil 2.05 - Stencil import by “Tool / Install New Collection…” fails with the error message "Error installing collection"

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Download one stencil, the Dojo one is fine.
2. Try to install it in Pencil 2.05, by by "Tool / Install New Collection"

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The stencil is not installed. It gives "Error installing collection". 

A similar error message is known if I try to install an already-installed 
Template by "Tools / Manage Export Template…", button "Install New 
Template…", where it is right. 

Here such error message is not right, as there is no name conflict, if a 
Stencil is not yet installed, or installed manually.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
I'm using the standalone version of Pencil 2.05 on Win7 ( I got Firefox 24 
installed, with which the Firefox plugin does no work )

Please provide any additional information below.
A workaround is to install the stencils manually:
1. Extract the archives in ”<PencilProfile>/Pencil/Stencils” directory.
2. For the standolone (xulrunner) version:
By example, on win7 by default: 
”%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Pencil\Profiles\{your-profile-name}\Pencil\Sten
cils”
3. For the Firefox extension version:
By example, on win7 by default: 
”%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\{your-profile-name}\Pe
ncil\Stencils”
4. Each Stencil has its own a directory in this directory, with a 
“Definition.xml” file (and some other optional files).
By example:
”[…]\Pencil\Stencils\ExtJs.GUI_v11\Definition.xml”.
”[…]\Pencil\Stencils\ExtJs.GUI_v11\Icons\[…]”.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by rolf.hem...@gmail.com on 7 Oct 2013 at 9:48

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Anything new on this ?

Original comment by jean.les...@gmail.com on 30 Jul 2014 at 1:45

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I used the workaround to install famfam collection.
It works but some collections are somehow broken (I don't know why so far) and 
icon images are not shown in the bar so I have to actually put it into the 
workspace to know how it looks and icons do not resize.

Thanks for the workaround. Looking forward for this fix.

Original comment by xav...@gmail.com on 30 Aug 2014 at 1:23

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I was having the same problem.  Glyphish and Font Awesome were no longer 
available to me in the Collections sidebar (I might have inadvertently removed 
them both by clicking on the "X"...poor design...this is way too easy to do by 
accident).  Anyway, I removed the folders corresponding Glyphish and Font 
Awesome folders from 
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Pencil\Profiles\{your-profile-name}\Pencil\Stencil
s\, re-downloaded the zip files from the website, and successfully installed 
them using the "Tools->Install new collection" menu option.

Original comment by dhunte...@gmail.com on 2 Feb 2015 at 1:08