Sometimes you may need to extract and install Aspera HSTS RPM package manually instead of using a package manager such as RPM Package Manager or DNF. This situation commonly occurs when:

• You do not have root privileges, so you cannot run rpm -i. 

• You need to inspect or extract specific files from an RPM without installing the whole package.

• You are working inside a container, minimal Linux environment, or restricted system where the RPM database cannot be modified.

• You want to deploy software into a custom directory rather than the standard system paths.

In these cases, the RPM file can be treated as an archive. The utility rpm2cpio converts the RPM package into a CPIO archive, which can then be extracted using the standard Linux cpio command.

1. Download the rpm file from  https://www.ibm.com/products/aspera/downloads
2. Perform a raw extraction of the rpm file.

1. •  -D is the destination folder where the extracted files are stored. In this case it is saving it to the /opt/software folder
   • It creates subfolders  /opt/software/opt/aspera and creates files in there. 
   • It also extracts some files to /opt/software/usr/ and /opt/software/bin/ sub folders. 
2. Paste the license file in /opt/software/opt/aspera/etc/aspera-license
3. Check "/opt/software/opt/aspera/bin/ascp -A"

Thats it - Aspera HSTS has been installed. 

You can test transfer from a ascp Client. Make sure to add the -S option in the client to point to the correct location of the ascp binaries in the server.