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What are the OS dependencies on RHEL 8 OS Splunk has?

rsyung
Engager

We would like to patch up the OS and would like to know what are the dependencies on RHEL 8 OS does Splunk has. Thanks.

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

The only "formal" dependencies of the splunk package are quite general and are rather impossible to _not_ be fulfilled on any RHEL installation

# rpm -q --requires splunk
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/groupadd
/usr/sbin/useradd
coreutils
findutils
grep
procps
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
sed

richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

There are no requirements specific to RH.  You just need kernel 3.x, 4.x, or 5.4 (or newer).  See https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.0.0/Installation/Systemrequirements#Unix_operating_sy...

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