Platform IDs supported by patch are: 46. Platform ID needed is : 226

Problem:

Opatch apply failed with the following error:

Platform IDs supported by patch are: 46 Patch ( 24006111 ) is not applicable on current platform.
Platform ID needed is : 226

Reason:

You may not be familiar with Platform IDs, so the above error actually means “Downloaded patch is for Linux x86 and Linux x86-64 is required”.

Solution:

Download and apply patch for Linux x86-64.

Additional information:

Full list of Platform IDs can be found here

Platform	ARU_ID
Apple Mac OS X (PowerPC)	421
HP Tru64 UNIX	87
HP-UX Itanium	197
HP-UX Itanium (32-bit)	278
HP-UX PA-RISC (32-bit)	2
HP-UX PA-RISC (64-bit)	59
IBM AIX on POWER Systems (32-bit)	319
IBM AIX on POWER Systems (64-bit)	212
IBM i on POWER Systems	43
IBM S/390-based Linux (31-bit)	211
IBM z/OS on System z	30
IBM: Linux on POWER Systems	227
IBM: Linux on System z	209
Linux Itanium	214
Linux x86	46
Linux x86-64	226
Microsoft Windows (32-bit)	912
Microsoft Windows Itanium (64-bit)	208
Microsoft Windows x64 (64-bit)	233
Sun Solaris SPARC (32-bit)	453
Sun Solaris SPARC (64-bit)	23
Sun Solaris x86 (32-bit)	173
Sun Solaris x86-64 (64-bit)	267