Installing the Aspera Common Components

Ruby, MySQL, and Apache are installed with the Aspera Common Components.

For the installation of Aspera Orchestrator 2.4.0, the required version of the Aspera Common Components is v1.2.15.build_version. For installation with other versions of Orchestrator, please see the compatibility matrix.

To confirm whether or not the Aspera Common Components (aspera-common) are already installed on the host, run the following command, as root.
```
# rpm –qa | grep aspera-common
```
It should not return any entries. If it does, indicating that a prior version of aspera-common is already installed, go to Step 2. If aspera-common is not installed, go to Step 3.
Verify compatibility of the Common Components with Orchestrator. If the installed version is not compatible, uninstall and go to Step 3
Install the Aspera Common Components.
Go to the downloads site and click Linux. Select v1.2.15Com - Linux RPM x86_64 and click Download. Copy the components package to a local directory (such as /tmp) and install it with the following commands, as root:
```
# cd /tmp
# rpm -ivh aspera-common-1.2.15.build_version-0.x86_64.rpm 
Preparing...########################################### [100%]
```