Unable to launch the installer with error 'cannot execute binary file'

Troubleshooting

Problem

Running the Informix® product installer, it fails with the following error message: $/usr/local/cnfs_db/IDS_Linux/IDS-12.10.FC2 # ./ids_install Preparing to install... Extracting the JRE from the installer archive... Unpacking the JRE... Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive... Configuring the installer for this system's environment... Launching installer... ./ids_install: line 3345: /tmp/install.dir.34533/Linux/resource/jre/jre/bin/java: cannot execute binary file ./ids_install: line 3345: /tmp/install.dir.34533/Linux/resource/jre/jre/bin/java: Success

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Document Information

More support for:
Informix Servers

Software version:
11.7, 12.1

Operating system(s):
AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris

Document number:
500039

Modified date:
04 July 2019

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swg21653973

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