How To Install GeoIP on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install GeoIP on CentOS 8.
What is GeoIP
GeoIP is a C library that enables the user to find the country that any IP address or hostname originates from. It uses file based databases that can optionally be updated on a weekly basis by installing the geoipupdate-cron (IPv4) and/or geoipupdate-cron6 (IPv6) packages.
We can use yum or dnf to install GeoIP on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install GeoIP.
Install GeoIP on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install GeoIP using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install GeoIP
Install GeoIP on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install GeoIP using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install GeoIP
How To Uninstall GeoIP on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the GeoIP package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove GeoIP
GeoIP Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/geoiplookup
/usr/bin/geoiplookup6
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b/6ae01401fadaccf2389a3ddb2fe9310d7f6f50
/usr/lib/.build-id/83
/usr/lib/.build-id/83/2f645cfa96f0edb61f2fe656c3d71507ecae22
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8/fa7a265577f72e7d26522d8d21421b45dc9453
/usr/lib64/libGeoIP.so.1
/usr/lib64/libGeoIP.so.1.6.12
/usr/share/doc/GeoIP
/usr/share/doc/GeoIP/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/GeoIP/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/GeoIP/NEWS.md
/usr/share/doc/GeoIP/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/GeoIP
/usr/share/licenses/GeoIP/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/geoiplookup.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/geoiplookup6.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install GeoIP on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.