How To Install ontospy on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install ontospy on Ubuntu 22.04. ontospy is query, inspect and visualize RDF & OWL ontologies - CLI tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ontospy on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is ontospy

ontospy is:

Ontospy is a lightweight Python library and command line tool for inspecting and visualizing vocabularies encoded using W3C Semantic Web standards, that is, RDF or any of its dialects (RDFS, OWL, SKOS).

Ontospy can be used to generate HTML documentation for an ontology pretty easily.

This package provides the Ontospy command-line tool.

There are three methods to install ontospy on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install ontospy Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install ontospy using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ontospy

Install ontospy Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install ontospy using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ontospy

Install ontospy Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install ontospy using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ontospy

How To Uninstall ontospy on Ubuntu 22.04

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

sudo apt-get remove ontospy

Uninstall ontospy And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ontospy and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ontospy

Remove ontospy Configurations and Data

To remove ontospy configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ontospy

Remove ontospy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove ontospy configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ontospy

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ontospy package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.