Supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Distributions for x86-64

Use the following information to check supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 distributions:

Table 4-4 x86-64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Minimum Operating System Requirements

Item	Requirements
SSH Requirement	Ensure that OpenSSH is installed on your servers. OpenSSH is the required SSH software.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Minimum supported versions: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2: 4.18.0-193.19.1.el8_2.x86_64 or later
Packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Install the latest released versions of the following packages: bc binutils compat-openssl10 elfutils-libelf glibc glibc-devel ksh libaio libXrender libX11 libXau libXi libXtst libgcc libnsl libstdc++ libxcb libibverbs make smartmontools sysstat Note: If you intend to use 32-bit client applications to access 64-bit servers, then you must also install (where available) the latest 32-bit versions of the packages listed in this table.
Optional Packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Based on your requirement, install the latest released versions of the following packages: ipmiutil (for Intelligent Platform Management Interface) libnsl2 (for Oracle Database Client only) libnsl2-devel (for Oracle Database Client only) net-tools (for Oracle RAC and Oracle Clusterware) nfs-utils (for Oracle ACFS)

Note:

• See Oracle Database Release Notes for Linux for information about installing Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2) or Oracle RAC 12c Release 2 (12.2) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
• You cannot install Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c Release 2 (12.2) on Oracle Linux 8 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. For Oracle RAC installations, first install Oracle Grid Infrastructure release update (RU) 19.13 or later, and then install Oracle RAC 12c Release 2 (12.2). See Oracle Database Release Notes for Linux
• Oracle Database Client 12c Release 2 (12.2) supports both 32-bit and 64-bit versions on Oracle Linux 8.2 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2.