How To Install swish 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 swish on Ubuntu.

What is swish

swish is:

Swish is a framework for performing deductions in RDF data using a variety of techniques. Swish is conceived as a toolkit for experimenting with RDF inference, and for implementing stand-alone RDF file processors (usable in similar style to CWM, but with a view to being extensible in declarative style through added Haskell function and data value declarations). It explores Haskell as “a scripting language for the Semantic Web”.

Swish is a work-in-progress, and currently incorporates:

• Turtle, Notation3 and NTriples input and output. The N3 support is incomplete (no handling of @forAll).
• RDF graph isomorphism testing and merging.
• Display of differences between RDF graphs.
• Inference operations in forward chaining, backward chaining and proof-checking modes.
• Simple Horn-style rule implementations, extendable through variable binding modifiers and filters.
• Class restriction rule implementation, primarily for datatype inferences.
• RDF formal semantics entailment rule implementation.
• Complete, ready-to-run, command-line and script-driven programs.

This package contains the swish tool.

There are three methods to install swish 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 swish Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install swish

Install swish Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install swish

Install swish 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 swish using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install swish

How To Uninstall swish on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove swish

Uninstall swish And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove swish

Remove swish Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge swish

Remove swish configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge swish

Dependencies

swish have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libffi8
• libgmp10

References

• swish website

Summary

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