How To Install lua-geoip on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-geoip
on Kali Linux.
What is lua-geoip
lua-geoip is:
This package contains bindings for the GeoIP library for the Lua language. It allows one to find the country and the city that any IP address or hostname originates from. It uses a file based database, not reverse DNS lookups.
There are three methods to install lua-geoip
on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install lua-geoip Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install lua-geoip
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lua-geoip
Install lua-geoip Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lua-geoip
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lua-geoip
Install lua-geoip Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install lua-geoip
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lua-geoip
How To Uninstall lua-geoip on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the lua-geoip
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lua-geoip
Uninstall lua-geoip And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lua-geoip
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lua-geoip
Remove lua-geoip Configurations and Data
To remove lua-geoip
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lua-geoip
Remove lua-geoip configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lua-geoip
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lua-geoip
Dependencies
lua-geoip have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lua-geoip
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.