Installing the Aspera Common Components

Run all installation commands as root.

The Aspera Common Components must be installed before installing Orchestrator. The Aspera Common Components provide Ruby, MySQL, and Apache, which are necessary to the functioning of Orchestrator.

For Orchestrator 2.5.1, the required version of the Aspera Common Components is 1.2.16.build_version.

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
```
- If the command does not return any entries (indicating that aspera-common is not installed), or if it returns information about an earlier version of aspera-common (prior to 1.2.16), continue with Step 2.
- If the command returns information confirming that aspera-common 1.2.16 is already installed, you are ready to follow the procedure in Installing Orchestrator.
Install the Aspera Common Components.
1. Go to the Aspera downloads website, http://downloads.asperasoft.com/en/downloads/27.
2. Click the Linux icon.
3. Click the Linux dropdown menu, and select v1.2.16Com - Linux RPM x86_64.
4. Click Direct download and enter the user name and password supplied by Aspera. If you have trouble locating your login credentials, contact Technical Support.
5. Copy the Aspera Common Components into a local directory, such as /tmp/.
6. Run the following commands, as root:
```
# cd /tmp
# rpm -ivh aspera-common-1.2.16.build_version-0.x86_64.rpm 
Preparing...########################################### [100%]
```