SPB17.4 Installation on RHEL 8

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Hi Guys, 
 
 Does anyone have instructions to install spb17.4 on RHEL 8? or have experience any issues with any packages installation? 
 
 Thank you 
 David

JuanCR · Answer

Hi David, 
 
 According to the official compatibility list of 17.4, RHEL 8 is not a supported version of the OS. This is what the documentation states: 
 Linux System Requirements 
 This section describes the system requirements for Linux.

Operating System

RHEL 7.9 (64-bit); RHEL 7.4 (64-bit); RHEL 6.5 (64-bit); SLES 11 SP4 (64-bit); SLES 12 SP3 (64-bit)

Supported Platforms for License Server 
 Cadence&reg; License Server 20.01, HotFix 002 is based on FLEXnet v11.17.1.0 supports the following platforms:

Windows 
 Linux 
 Ubuntu

Windows 10 
 Windows Server 2012 
 Windows Server 2016 
 Windows Server 2019

Linux RHEL6 
 Linux RHEL7 
 Linux SLES11 
 Linux SLES12

Ubuntu 14.04

You can find more in this link: 
 https://support.cadence.com/apex/techpubDocViewerPage?xmlName=pcbsystemreqs.xml&title=Allegro%20Platform%20System%20Requirements%20--%20Allegro%20Platform%20System%20Requirements%20-%20Linux%20System%20Requirements&hash=pgfId-1043568&c_version=17.4-2019&path=pcbsystemreqs/pcbsystemreqs17.4-2019/chap1.html#pgfId-1043568 
 
 I've also found the list of packages that are installed for other versions of Allegro that do support RHEL 8. You can try installing these but since it's not officially supported in 17.4, there is no guarantee that it'll work. Please do get back to us with your results, specially if positive:

Platform

Requirement

Patch Needed

RHEL 8.4 (x86_64)

Additional packages added: autofs-5.1.4-48.el8.x86_64 net-tools-2.0-0.52.20160912git.el8.x86_64 nfs-utils-2.3.3-41.el8.x86_64 nss-pam-ldapd-0.9.9-3.el8.x86_64 openldap-clients-2.4.46-16.el8.x86_64 sendmail-cf-8.15.2-34.el8.noarch ftp-0.17-78.el8.x86_64 ksh-20120801-254.el8.x86_64 mailx-12.5-29.el8.x86_64 mlocate-0.26-20.el8.x86_64 sendmail-cf-8.15.2-34.el8.noarch tcsh-6.20.00-13.el8.x86_64 perl-LDAP-0.66-7.el8.noarch perl-Convert-ASN1-0.27-17.el8.noarch tk-8.6.8-1.el8.x86_64 libjpeg-turbo-utils-1.5.3-10.el8.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-Xvfb-1.20.10-1.el8.x86_64 ncurses-compat-libs-6.1-7.20180224.el8.x86_64 libnsl-2.28-151.el8.x86_64 libpng12-1.2.57-5.el8.x86_64 redhat-lsb-core-4.1-47.el8.x86_64 compat-openssl10-1.0.2o-3.el8.x86_64 xterm-331-1.el8_3.2.x86_64 perl-Env-1.04-395.el8.noarch xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi-7.5-19.el8.noarch expect-5.45.4-5.el8.x86_64 ipmitool-1.8.18-17.el8.x86_64 vim-X11-8.0.1763-15.el8.x86_64 Patch Updates: nettle-3.4.1-4.el8_3.x86_64.rpm gnutls-3.6.14-8.el8_3.x86_64.rpm nettle-devel-3.4.1-4.el8_3.x86_64.rpm gnutls-devel-3.6.14-8.el8_3.x86_64.rpm gnutls-c++-3.6.14-8.el8_3.x86_64.rpm gnutls-dane-3.6.14-8.el8_3.x86_64.rpm java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless-1.8.0.292.b10-0.el8_3.x86_64.rpm java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.292.b10-0.el8_3.x86_64.rpm java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel-1.8.0.292.b10-0.el8_3.x86_64.rpm firefox-78.10.0-1.el8_3.x86_64.rpm bind-export-libs-9.11.26-4.el8_4.x86_64.rpm bind-libs-9.11.26-4.el8_4.x86_64.rpm bind-libs-lite-9.11.26-4.el8_4.x86_64.rpm bind-license-9.11.26-4.el8_4.noarch.rpm bind-utils-9.11.26-4.el8_4.x86_64.rpm python3-bind-9.11.26-4.el8_4.noarch.rpm Optional: tigervnc-1.11.0-6.el8.x86_64 tigervnc-server-1.11.0-6.el8.x86_64

Hope this helped.

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