If you just want to use riot at the command line, I strongly suggest just downloading Jena's prebuilt artifacts:
https://jena.apache.org/download/index.cgi You'll find that more straightforward. --- A. Soroka The University of Virginia Library > On Dec 22, 2016, at 5:12 PM, Marta Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm looking for a command line tool to convert between rdf formats (in > particular I'm interested in n-quads, json-ld, trig)... but it looks like > there isn't anything available except for jena. So, I've > > 1. installed OpenJDK-8 on Debian > 2. downloaded and compiled Jena using this command [1] > 3. followed the documentation [2] and run the command "./riot --help" from > "./apache-jena/bin/" > > Unfortunately however, I get the error "Error: Could not find or load main > class riotcmd.riot" and I don't know where to go from here. How can I fix > this, such that I can successfully run riot? > > Thanks for any help. > > [1] > https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=jena.git;a=blob;f=BUILD.md;h=0f0adbfd4a52a38481ea73db30cd27a71d6c9051;hb=HEAD#l52 > [2] https://jena.apache.org/documentation/io/#command-line-tools
