When I am attempting to install OpenVSwitch from the RPM generated from the documentation, it spews out an error, the following. I have python2 installed, python3, and python3.6. I generally do not know why it is showing this, but my 9:40 at night brain can't exactly comprehend much.
[root@Alma-85-amd64-base x86_64]# yum install python2
Last metadata expiration check: 1:15:52 ago on Tue 08 Mar 2022 02:20:48 AM CET.
Package python2-2.7.18-7.module_el8.5.0+2579+77770ab7.x86_64 is already installed.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
[root@Alma-85-amd64-base x86_64]# rpm -i openvswitch-2.17.0-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
python >= 2.7 is needed by openvswitch-2.17.0-1.el8.x86_64
[root@Alma-85-amd64-base x86_64]#
Alright, here's an update. I could not get OpenVSwitch to work on any version of RHEL 8, but it did work on RHEL 7.