'No such file or directory' error in bash, but the file exists?

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Published on 2011-10-09T02:52:34Z Indexed on 2013/10/21 3:58 UTC
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On Ubuntu, I get a 'No such file or directory' error when I try to execute a command.

I have checked with 'ls -la' , the file 'adb' is there and it has 'x' flag So why I am getting a 'No such file or directory'?

~/Programs/android-sdk-linux_x86/platform-tools$ ./adb
 bash: ./adb: No such file or directory
~/Programs/android-sdk-linux_x86/platform-tools$ ls -la
 total 34120
 drwxrwxr-x 3 silverstri silverstri     4096 2011-10-08 18:50 .
 drwxrwxr-x 8 silverstri silverstri     4096 2011-10-08 18:51 ..
 -rwxrwxr-x 1 silverstri silverstri  3764858 2011-10-08 18:50 aapt
 -rwxrwxr-x 1 silverstri silverstri   366661 2011-10-08 18:50 adb
 -rwxrwxr-x 1 silverstri silverstri   906346 2011-10-08 18:50 aidl
 -rwxrwxr-x 1 silverstri silverstri   328445 2011-10-08 18:50 dexdump
 -rwxrwxr-x 1 silverstri silverstri     2603 2011-10-08 18:50 dx
 drwxrwxr-x 2 silverstri silverstri     4096 2011-10-08 18:50 lib
 -rwxrwxr-x 1 silverstri silverstri 14269620 2011-10-08 18:50 llvm-rs-cc
 -rwxrwxr-x 1 silverstri silverstri 14929076 2011-10-08 18:50 llvm-rs-cc-2
 -rw-rw-r-- 1 silverstri silverstri      241 2011-10-08 18:50 llvm-rs-cc.txt
 -rw-rw-r-- 1 silverstri silverstri   332494 2011-10-08 18:50 NOTICE.txt
 -rw-rw-r-- 1 silverstri silverstri      291 2011-10-08 18:50 source.properties

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