Grafana 8.2.5-1 - will it work on Red Hat 6.10 or Red Hat 8.5?

Grafana Installation
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Installed RPM, not able to start as root user or Normal user:

wget https://dl.grafana.com/oss/release/grafana-8.2.5-1.x86_64.rpm
sudo yum install grafana-8.2.5-1.x86_64.rpm

/usr/sbin/grafana-server --config “/etc/grafana/grafana.ini” --homepath “/u00/app/oracle/GRAFANA”
Grafana-server Init Failed: Could not find config defaults, make sure homepath command line parameter is set or working directory is homepath

grafana-8.2.5-1.x86_64

Tried on:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.10 (Santiago)
Also same issue on:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.5 (Ootpa)

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seems like it worked after
mkdir -p /usr/share/grafana/data/log
mkdir -p /usr/share/grafana/data/plugins

But not able to use Custom Homepath, was able to start using normal way:
systemctl stop grafana-server
systemctl start grafana-server

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