I absolutely have this working under Centos 7.6. I used 'alien --to-tgz" tool to convert the .deb packagess to a tar files. Then I compared the files that needed to be created or copied and I did some moving around by hand. I had it all up and working in about 1.5 hours. I was even able to get the PEMicro tools running through my USB ports.
It sure seems like it is an excuse by some "Ubuntu" fan of an NXP employee that doesn't want to be bothered with supporting a real enterprise level Linux distribution.