Unable to find 7z on Linux, "No such file or directory"

[jaymehta-g]

OS: Linux Mint 21.2

In a terminal:

$ whereis 7z
7z: /usr/bin/7z /usr/share/man/man1/7z.1.gz

Then I enable external archiver in settings and set /usr/bin/7z as the file archiver path for Unix. When I make a backup or one is made automatically, I get the "No such file or directory /usr/bin/7z

For me, /usr/bin/7z is a shell script just containing exec /usr/lib/p7zip/7z, but when I try that path I get the same error