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Upgrade Splunk 5.0.4 to 6.0. Error couldn't run "/opt/splunk/bin/python": Exec formar error.

dbabanov
Path Finder

Hello!
I want to upgrade my Splunk 5.0.5 to 6.0.
I copied files to directory with Splunk, but when i try to START Splunk, I have error:


couldn't run "/opt/splunk/bin/python": Exec formar error

Can anyone help me?

P.S. OS=ubuntu 12.04 x86

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dbabanov
Path Finder

So, i'm not correctly unpack tgz archive.
I install deb-package and splunk now work.
Thanks.

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grijhwani
Motivator

That was - as soon as I saw the question - my thought too.

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Ayn
Legend

Are you sure you downloaded the correct package? This sounds like you accidentally downloaded the x64 package and are trying to run x64 binaries on an x86 system.

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