Each Pellet distribution includes a version of Jena libraries that is compatible with that version of Pellet. It is possible (though not guaranteed) that Pellet will work fine with another version of Jena. To accomplish this instead of including the “pellet/lib/jena/*.jar” files in your classpath simply include the Jena jar files from another distribution. But note that command-line utilities in Pellet (e.g. pellet-cli.jar) includes a classpath declaration in its manifest file to point to the “pellet/lib/jena/*.jar” files. If you include pellet-cli.jar in your classpath with the other version of Jena libraries you will end up having two different versions of Jena in your classpath which will cause problems. You can exclude pellet-cli.jar from your classpath to avoid this problem. If you want to use the Pellet command-line with a different version of Jena then you can replace the files in “pellet/lib/jena” directory with the version you want after you make sure that the version of Pellet is compatible with the version of Jena you want to use.

