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Add advanced install instructions for RHEL 8

Nick Thomas requested to merge add-rhel-8 into master

What does this Merge Request do?

Investigating FIPS compliance for GitLab, I had occasion to set up the GDK on an RHEL 8 machine. This is a paid product with similarities to CentOS, but the repositories do provide some aid that isn't available in CentOS, as far as I can tell, so I think it warrants its own segment.

I plan to add documentation to the GitLab repository that details how to get a FIPS-enabled development environment set up so we can pursue / vet FIPS-compliance changes. One of those steps is to install GDK on a RHEL8 machine, as I did, so this section will be very useful for that.

Merge Request checklist

  • [-] Tests added for new functionality. If not, please raise Issue to follow-up.
  • This change is backward compatible. If not, please include steps to communicate to our users.
  • Documentation added/updated, if needed.
  • [-] gdk doctor test added, if needed.

Part of gitlab#295923 (closed)

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