How To Install rasqal.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install rasqal.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. rasqal.x86_64 is RDF Query Library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rasqal.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `rasqal.x86_64`

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.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rasqal.x86_64.

Install rasqal.x86_64 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.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rasqal.x86_64

How To Uninstall rasqal.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the rasqal.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove rasqal.x86_64

rasqal.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/roqet
/usr/lib64/librasqal.so.3
/usr/lib64/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.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rasqal.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.