# Single File

**URL:** <https://hub.mender.io/t/single-file/486>\
**Category:** Update Modules\
**Created:** [April 16, 2019, 1:55pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/single-file/486 "2019-04-16T13:55:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![craige](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b782af/32.png) [@craige](https://hub.mender.io/u/craige)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2024, 6:22pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/single-file/486/26 "2024-05-31T18:22:50Z")

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Following the tutorial provided step by step I have generated a single file artifact, however when I try to use this for a deployment I get the following error from the device:

> 2024-05-31 18:09:35.518 +0000 UTC info: Running Mender client 4.0.2  
> 2024-05-31 18:09:35.519 +0000 UTC info: Deployment with ID 24b6fe54-31e6-4eb3-b543-fed5a58ec130 started.  
> 2024-05-31 18:09:35.524 +0000 UTC info: Sending status update to server  
> 2024-05-31 18:09:36.57 +0000 UTC error: Parse error: Failed to parse the header: Failed to parse the type-info artifact\_provides JSON: The JSON is not an object  
> 2024-05-31 18:09:36.578 +0000 UTC info: Sending status update to server

The JSON contained within the type-info file in the artifact is as follows;

> {“type”:“single-file”,“artifact\_depends”:null,“artifact\_provides”:null}

Why is this not working as expected?

As a side note - the documentation on using the single-file-artifact-gen [here](https://docs.mender.io/artifact-creation/create-an-artifact) seems very outdated and does not work since the --software-version and --software-name arguments are seemingly unsupported.

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