Patch installation fails: “Did not execute Executables\config-editor\ConfigEditor.exe successfully”

The installation of a patch fails.

Remark: patches can be downloaded from https://download.novell.com/patch/finder/ .

Problem:

During the installation of a patch, it fails with the below error message:

Error occured during the upgrade.

Error message: Did not execute Executables\config-editor\ConfigEditor.exe successfully.

Rename accordingly the folders so that the path to the patch files does not include any special characters or breaking spaces.

Then re-attempt patch installation.

The patch may have been extracted to a location for which the path contains some special characters or breaking spaces.

These characters are not handled correctly by the patch installation scripts.