Java JDK Installation Error on Redhat: bad ELF interpreter

by iain wright on July 29, 2010 in SOLUTIONS

Problem:

You receive the following eror when attempting to install the Java JDK from the sun website on RedHat:

/jdk-6u21-linux-i586-rpm.bin: ./install.sfx.29746: /lib/ld-linux.so.2:
bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory

The fix for me was to use the 64bit version of the JDK installer. You can determine if you are on 32bit or 64bit by running:

uname -a

If you get something like this, you likely are trying to install the 32bit version like I was:

Linux servername 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5xen #1 SMP Mon Mar 1 11:11:42 EST 2010
 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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Lee December 19, 2010 at 6:38 pm #

good..Thank you ^-^

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