"install: command not found" During Install Causes "Server initialization was unsuccessful" error during initialization

Issue

During execution of the rpm install ("sudo yum install tableau-server-<version>.x86_64.rpm"), a non-fatal error is observed:

/opt/tableau/tableau_server/packages/scripts.10500.18.0210.2209/after-install-common: line 293: install: command not found
warning: %post(tableau-server-10500.18.0210.2209-10500-18.0210.2209.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 127
Non-fatal POSTIN scriptlet failure in rpm package tableau-server-10500.18.0210.2209-10500-18.0210.2209.x86_64

Then, when running "tsm initialize --start-server --request-timeout 1800, Tableau Server fails to start with the error message:

22% - Installing the maintenance app failed.

Later followed by:

Server initialization was unsuccessful.
See '/home/centos/.tableau/tsm/tsm.log' for more information.

Environment

Tableau Server 10.5.1
CentOS Linux release 7.4

Resolution

Reinstall the "coreutils" system package.

Cause

The "install" command provided by the "coreutils" system package is missing from the path (usually expected in /usr/bin).

Additional Information

To find out if the "install" command is in your path, run "which install". If no file is found, then it is missing.
To find out if coreutils is installed, grep for it in the installed packages. On CentOS, this is done by running "yum list installed | grep coreutils".

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