I don’t know if this helps but, I’m getting the same error ‘An error occurred: Import Error: about.json does not exist, or is invalid. Are you sure this is a Discourse Theme?’ when installing a theme or theme-component from a device. The install from git repo is also throwing a 500 error on each.
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