3551999 - Failure to Import Delivery Unit Using hdbalm Command

When attempting to import a Delivery Unit (DU) using the hdbalm command as shown below, the operation fails with either [Error 1] or [Error 2]:

hdbalm -u SYSTEM -h hostname -p 8000 -v import /tmp/Charles/REPO_20241129-030452434-HRE-SYSTEMDB--CHARLES_DB.tgz

• [Error 1]
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  File /tmp/Charles/REPO_20241129-030452434-HRE-SYSTEMDB--CHARLES_DB.tgz does not appear to be a delivery unit file.
  Log file written to /tmp/hdbalm/hdbalm-install-1732614056068.log
  DEBUG:root:Finished with return code 1
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• [Error 2]
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  No supported python version found.
  Install the latest version of Python 3.6 or later.
  See SAP note 2990848.
  After the installation of Python set the environment variable
  PYTHON_HOME
  to the location of the Python installation
  or set the environment variable
  PYTHON_EXE
  to the location of the Python executable.
  As an example the command (bourne shell) is
  export PYTHON_HOME=/usr/python3
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SAP HANA, platform edition 2.0

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