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[hameau]

The plugin files are zipped with Ubuntu from an NTFS drive, which has no permissions, thus no permissions are stored.

In this situation, the permissions come from the mount point. This is simpler to control if you make an entry in /etc/fstab for the ntfs partition (rather than relying on automounting) and set appropriate fmask and dmask values.

Refs : http://opensuse.swerdna.org/susentfs.html (not Suse specific, but I just found it first); man mount.ntfs-3g.

With respect, I think this is something that you need to fix, especially as the target audience will probably have a Windows background and be installing on a Linux server. At least one European host (OVH) gives a 500 error if PHP files have permissions of 0777.

If you know an easy way (like select the directories and files in a file manager, then right-menu or click to archive), let me know.

With nautilus and file-roller installed, you should be able to select files and directories, then use the 'Compress...' option in the nautilus right-click menu. (You may need to install additional file compression libs to have a .zip option.)