How To Install rasqal on CentOS 8

rasqal is RDF Query Library RDF Query Library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rasqal on CentOS 8.

What is rasqal

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. rasqal 0.9.33 6.el8 x86_64 289 k rasqal-0.9.33-6.el8.src.rpm appstream RDF Query Library http LGPLv2+ or ASL 2.0 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 or dnf to install rasqal on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rasqal.

Install rasqal on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install rasqal

Install rasqal on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo yum -y install rasqal

How To Uninstall rasqal on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove rasqal

rasqal Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/roqet
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/66
/usr/lib/.build-id/66/544b6ecaaa6c74abdc3a4968b5b872664a4cf7
/usr/lib/.build-id/f1
/usr/lib/.build-id/f1/1bd2435a03fcfe508de21ba39b13bc5ad3b3e2
/usr/lib/librasqal.so.3
/usr/lib/librasqal.so.3.0.0
/usr/share/doc/rasqal
/usr/share/doc/rasqal/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/rasqal/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/rasqal/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/rasqal/NOTICE
/usr/share/doc/rasqal/README
/usr/share/doc/rasqal/RELEASE.html
/usr/share/licenses/rasqal
/usr/share/licenses/rasqal/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/rasqal/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/licenses/rasqal/LICENSE-2.0.txt
/usr/share/licenses/rasqal/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/roqet.1.gz
/usr/bin/roqet
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/82
/usr/lib/.build-id/82/5014eff3d9c6c105896a706f43d8139b64d239
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8/8cec39d351f4ba6df8d1e2b17c61e8ee166899
/usr/lib64/librasqal.so.3
/usr/lib64/librasqal.so.3.0.0
/usr/share/doc/rasqal
/usr/share/doc/rasqal/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/rasqal/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/rasqal/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/rasqal/NOTICE
/usr/share/doc/rasqal/README
/usr/share/doc/rasqal/RELEASE.html
/usr/share/licenses/rasqal
/usr/share/licenses/rasqal/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/rasqal/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/licenses/rasqal/LICENSE-2.0.txt
/usr/share/licenses/rasqal/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/roqet.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rasqal on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.