How To Install geoipupdate-cron on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install geoipupdate-cron in Fedora 36. geoipupdate-cron is Cron job to do weekly updates of GeoIP databases

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install geoipupdate-cron on Fedora 36.

What is geoipupdate-cron

Cron job for weekly updates to GeoIP2 binary databases from MaxMind.

We can use yum or dnf to install geoipupdate-cron on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install geoipupdate-cron.

Install geoipupdate-cron on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install geoipupdate-cron using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install geoipupdate-cron

Install geoipupdate-cron on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install geoipupdate-cron using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install geoipupdate-cron

How To Uninstall geoipupdate-cron on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the geoipupdate-cron package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove geoipupdate-cron

geoipupdate-cron Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/cron.weekly/geoipupdate

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install geoipupdate-cron on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).