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Supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Distributions for IBM: Linux on System z

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

Table: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Minimum Operating System Requirements

ItemRequirements
SSH RequirementEnsure that OpenSSH is installed on your servers. OpenSSH is the required SSH software.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3: 4.18.0-240.el8.s390x or later
Packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

The following packages (or later versions) must be installed:

bc-1.07.1-5.el8 (s390x)
binutils-2.30-79.el8 (s390x)
elfutils-libelf-0.180-1.el8 (s390x)
elfutils-libelf-devel-0.180-1.el8 (s390x)
fontconfig-2.13.1-3.el8 (s390x)
gcc-8.3.1-5.1.el8 (s390x)
gcc-c++-8.3.1-5.1.el8 (s390x)
glibc-2.28-127.el8_3.2 (s390x)
glibc-devel-2.28-127.el8_3.2 (s390x)
ksh-20120801-254.el8 (s390x)
libnsl2-1.2.0-2.20180605git4a062cf.el8 (s390x)
libX11-1.6.8-3.el8 (s390x)
libXau-1.0.9-3.el8 (s390x)
libXaw-1.0.13-10.el8 (s390x)
libXi-1.7.10-1.el8 (s390x)
libXrender-0.9.10-7.el8 (s390x)
libXtst-1.2.3-7.el8 (s390x)
libaio-0.3.112-1.el8 (s390x)
libaio-devel-0.3.112-1.el8 (s390x)
libattr-devel-2.4.48-3.el8 (s390x)
libgcc-8.3.1-5.1.el8 (s390x)
libgfortran-8.3.1-5.1.el8 (s390x)
libibverbs-29.0-3.el8 (s390x)
libnsl-2.28-127.el8_3.2 (s390x)
librdmacm-29.0-3.el8 (s390x)
libstdc++-8.3.1-5.1.el8 (s390x)
libstdc++-devel-8.3.1-5.1.el8 (s390x)
libxcb-1.13.1-1.el8 (s390x)
make-4.2.1-10.el8 (s390x)
net-tools-2.0-0.52.20160912git.el8 (s390x)
pam-1.3.1-11.el8 (s390x)
pam-devel-1.3.1-11.el8 (s390x)
policycoreutils-2.9-9.el8 (s390x)
policycoreutils-python-utils-2.9-9.el8.noarch
smartmontools-7.1-1.el8 (s390x)
sysstat-11.7.3-5.el8 (s390x)