How To Install rasqal on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install rasqal on Rocky Linux 8. rasqal is RDF Query Library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rasqal on Rocky Linux 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.

We can use yum or dnf to install rasqal on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rasqal.

Install rasqal on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install rasqal

Install rasqal on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove rasqal

rasqal Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/roqet
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/07
/usr/lib/.build-id/07/5025ebf31f04c47d0f6a37dbfb7c828e5ca6aa
/usr/lib/.build-id/50
/usr/lib/.build-id/50/a9f9d0f4b7d4974328ec755741258069d1804e
/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/69
/usr/lib/.build-id/69/0433b2aa878f9231921d717e53a3f0635bfd40
/usr/lib/.build-id/da
/usr/lib/.build-id/da/54ee520cc26e82f63f5a34b9f41acd1aec3df9
/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 Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.