MATLAB: Do I receive an error message “archive is not a ZIP archive” during MATLAB installation on Linux

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During MATLAB installation I receive a message similar to:
 The following error was detected while installing /home/<username>/mathworks_downloads/R2011b/archives/glnxa64/MATLAB_Compiler416_glnxa64.zip:
 archive is not a ZIP archive
 Would you like to retry installing /home/<username>/mathworks_downloads/R2011b/archives/glnxa64/MATLAB_Compiler416_glnxa64.zip?  If you press No, the installer will exit without completing the installation.  More information can be found at /tmp/mathworks_<username>.log
I have attempted to redownload the referenced archive but the error persists. I can manually extract the zip archive without error. The referenced log file contains details similar to the following:
 java.util.zip.ZipException: archive is not a ZIP archive
 at org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.zip.ZipFile.positionAtCentralDirectory(ZipFile.java:468)
 at org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.zip.ZipFile.populateFromCentralDirectory(ZipFile.java:309)
 at org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.zip.ZipFile.(ZipFile.java:181)
 at org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.zip.ZipFile.(ZipFile.java:158)
 at org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.zip.ZipFile.(ZipFile.java:119)
 at com.mathworks.install.archive.zip.commonscompress.CopyInputStreamToTempZipFileExtractor.extract(CopyInputStreamToTempZipFileExtractor.java:43)
 at com.mathworks.install.archive.DecodeArchiveInputStreamExtractor.extract(DecodeArchiveInputStreamExtractor.java:33)
 at com.mathworks.install.input.ArchiveComponentSource.extract(ArchiveComponentSource.java:27)
 at com.mathworks.install.ComponentContainerImpl$InstallableComponentImpl.install(ComponentContainerImpl.java:219)
 at com.mathworks.install.ComponentInstallerImpl.installComponents(ComponentInstallerImpl.java:110)
 at com.mathworks.install.ComponentInstallerImpl.installComponents(ComponentInstallerImpl.java:66)
 ...

Best Answer

This error can occur when there is not enough space in the /tmp directory to contain the product archive during extraction. Increasing the space available within the /tmp directory will resolve this error.
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