How To Install geoipupdate on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install geoipupdate on CentOS 8.
What is geoipupdate
The GeoIP Update program performs automatic updates of GeoIP2 and GeoIP Legacy binary databases.
We can use yum or dnf to install geoipupdate on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install geoipupdate.
Install geoipupdate 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 geoipupdate using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install geoipupdate
Install geoipupdate 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 geoipupdate using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install geoipupdate
How To Uninstall geoipupdate on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the geoipupdate package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove geoipupdate
geoipupdate Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/GeoIP.conf
/usr/bin/geoipupdate
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc/412d111704aa772cd44b30b10b3763bf971c35
/usr/share/doc/geoipupdate
/usr/share/doc/geoipupdate/ChangeLog.md
/usr/share/doc/geoipupdate/GeoIP.conf.default
/usr/share/doc/geoipupdate/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/geoipupdate
/usr/share/licenses/geoipupdate/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/geoipupdate.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/GeoIP.conf.5.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install geoipupdate on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.