I’ve been trying out Oracle Cloud, particularly the “Always Free” offering as it permits free hosting for up to 6 virtual machines. This then got me trying Oracle Linux as an OS.

Oracle Linux is based on CentOS and has alot of similarities but some small differences. CentOS’s epel-release and PowerTools repos are of course, Oracle branded and not installed by default.

Enable epel-release

dnf install oracle-epel-release-el8
dnf config-manager --set-enabled ol8_developer_EPEL
dnf update

Enable PowerTools

dnf config-manager --set-enabled ol8_codeready_builder