Add Oracle Linux installation instructions (#17436)

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I forgot the guide applies to Oracle Linux as well. In fact, I ran a
small homeserver on OEL a few months back.

I did minimal installations on Rocky and OEL on VirtualBox and noticed
Codeready/Powertools repos aren't required, so I removed those commands
from the guide. I switched `RHEL`-references to `EL`.

#17423 was merged before I remembered about OEL but a new PR shouldn't
hurt :)

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Co-authored-by: Quentin Gliech <quenting@element.io>
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Add Oracle Linux 8 and 9 installation instructions.

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@ -310,29 +310,18 @@ sudo dnf install libtiff-devel libjpeg-devel libzip-devel freetype-devel \
sudo dnf group install "Development Tools"
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##### Red Hat Enterprise Linux / Rocky Linux
##### Red Hat Enterprise Linux / Rocky Linux / Oracle Linux
*Note: The term "RHEL" below refers to both Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Rocky Linux. The distributions are 1:1 binary compatible.*
*Note: The term "RHEL" below refers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Linux and Rocky Linux. The distributions are 1:1 binary compatible.*
It's recommended to use the latest Python versions.
RHEL 8 in particular ships with Python 3.6 by default which is EOL and therefore no longer supported by Synapse. RHEL 9 ship with Python 3.9 which is still supported by the Python core team as of this writing. However, newer Python versions provide significant performance improvements and they're available in official distributions' repositories. Therefore it's recommended to use them.
RHEL 8 in particular ships with Python 3.6 by default which is EOL and therefore no longer supported by Synapse. RHEL 9 ships with Python 3.9 which is still supported by the Python core team as of this writing. However, newer Python versions provide significant performance improvements and they're available in official distributions' repositories. Therefore it's recommended to use them.
Python 3.11 and 3.12 are available for both RHEL 8 and 9.
These commands should be run as root user.
RHEL 8
```bash
# Enable PowerTools repository
dnf config-manager --set-enabled powertools
```
RHEL 9
```bash
# Enable CodeReady Linux Builder repository
crb enable
```
Install new version of Python. You only need one of these:
```bash
# Python 3.11