How To Install libowlapi-java on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libowlapi-java on Ubuntu.

What is `libowlapi-java`

libowlapi-java is:

OWL API is a Java API for creating, manipulating and serialising OWL Ontologies.

The following components are included:

An API for OWL 2 and an in-memory reference implementation.
Read and write support for RDF/XML, OWL/XML, Functional syntax, Manchester syntax, Turtle, OBO.
Write support for KRSS, DL syntax, LaTeX.
Other formats via RIO integration (NTriples, JSON, etc.).
Reasoner interfaces for working with reasoners such as FaCT++, HermiT, Pellet, Racer, JFact and Chainsaw.
See documentation pages on the wiki for more details.

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

Install libowlapi-java Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libowlapi-java

Install libowlapi-java Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libowlapi-java

Install libowlapi-java 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 libowlapi-java using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libowlapi-java

How To Uninstall libowlapi-java on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the libowlapi-java package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libowlapi-java

Uninstall libowlapi-java And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libowlapi-java

Remove libowlapi-java Configurations and Data

To remove libowlapi-java configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libowlapi-java

Remove libowlapi-java configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libowlapi-java

Dependencies

libowlapi-java have the following dependencies:

References

libowlapi-java website

Summary

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