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Why would an executable say it doesn't exist when I try to run it?

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Mar 15, 202615230 views
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Problem

I have a compiled program, a tagger to identify parts of text, which claims it does not exist. When I attempt to run it via the command line, I get this: This executable has to be called by a generated script, which is how I ran into this issue. What are the reasons this error could show up? I'm ou…

Error Output

user@place:/home/user/explicitRedactedPath$ ls tagger
tagger
user@place:/home/user/explicitRedactedPath$ ./tagger arg and other args
-bash: ./tagger:…

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Fix for: Why would an executable say it doesn't exist when I try to run it?

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The program was compiled for an incompatible architecture, resulting in a non-executable program. The error message stating "does not exist" instead of "invalid executable" is just a very misleading message. Recompiling it on the target machine fixe…

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