How To Install rasqal.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install rasqal.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. rasqal.i686 is RDF Query Library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rasqal.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `rasqal.i686`

Rasqal is a library providing full support for querying Resource Description Framework (RDF) including parsing query syntaxes, constructing the queries, executing them and returning result formats. It currently handles the RDF Data Query Language (RDQL) and SPARQL Query language.

We can use yum to install rasqal.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rasqal.i686.

Install rasqal.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install rasqal.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rasqal.i686

How To Uninstall rasqal.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the rasqal.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove rasqal.i686

rasqal.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/roqet
/usr/lib/librasqal.so.3
/usr/lib/librasqal.so.3.0.0
/usr/share/doc/rasqal-0.9.30
/usr/share/doc/rasqal-0.9.30/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/rasqal-0.9.30/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/rasqal-0.9.30/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/rasqal-0.9.30/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/rasqal-0.9.30/INSTALL.html
/usr/share/doc/rasqal-0.9.30/LICENSE-2.0.txt
/usr/share/doc/rasqal-0.9.30/LICENSE.html
/usr/share/doc/rasqal-0.9.30/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/doc/rasqal-0.9.30/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/rasqal-0.9.30/NEWS.html
/usr/share/doc/rasqal-0.9.30/NOTICE
/usr/share/doc/rasqal-0.9.30/README
/usr/share/doc/rasqal-0.9.30/README.html
/usr/share/doc/rasqal-0.9.30/RELEASE.html
/usr/share/man/man1/roqet.1.gz

References

rasqal.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rasqal.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.