Supported Oracle Linux 9 Distributions for x86-64

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Table 3-2 x86-64 Oracle Linux 9 Minimum Operating System Requirements

Item	Requirements
SSH Requirement	Ensure that OpenSSH is installed on your servers. OpenSSH is the required SSH software.
Oracle Linux 9	Minimum supported versions: Oracle Linux 9.2 with the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 7: 5.15.0-201.135.6.el9uek.x86_64 or later Oracle Linux 9.2 with the Red Hat Compatible Kernel: 5.14.0-284.30.1.el9_2.x86_64 or later Starting with Oracle AI Database 26ai Release Update 23.26.1, the Linux x86-64 operating system is supported with the following minimum supported version: Oracle Linux 9.6 with the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8: 6.12.0-1.23.3.2.el9uek.x86_64 or later Note: Oracle recommends that you update Oracle Linux to the latest available version and release level.
Packages for Oracle Linux 9	Install the latest released versions of the following packages: Subscribe to the Oracle Linux 9 channel on the Unbreakable Linux Network, or configure a yum repository from the Oracle Linux yum server website, and then install the Oracle AI Database Preinstallation RPM, oracle-ai-database-preinstall-26ai. The Oracle AI Database Preinstallation RPM, oracle-ai-database-preinstall-26ai, automatically installs all required packages listed in the table below, their dependencies for Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle AI Database installations, and also performs other system configuration. If you install the Oracle AI Database Preinstallation RPM, oracle-ai-database-preinstall-26ai, then you do not have to install these packages, as the Oracle AI Database Preinstallation RPM automatically installs them. bc binutils compat-openssl11 elfutils-libelf fontconfig glibc glibc-devel glibc-headers ksh libaio libasan libcgroup-original libgcc libibverbs liblsan libnsl libstdc++ libvirt-libs libX11 libXau libXi libXrender libXtst libxcb libxcrypt-compat make policycoreutils policycoreutils-python-utils smartmontools sysstat
Optional Packages for Oracle Linux 9	Based on your requirement, install the latest released versions of the following packages: libnsl2 (for Oracle Database Client only) libnsl2-devel (for Oracle Database Client only)