How To Install geolite2-city on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install geolite2-city on CentOS 8.
What is geolite2-city
GeoLite2 databases are free IP geolocation databases comparable to, but less accurate than, MaxMind’s GeoIP2 databases. This product includes GeoLite2 data created by MaxMind, available from http
We can use yum or dnf to install geolite2-city on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install geolite2-city.
Install geolite2-city 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 geolite2-city using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install geolite2-city
Install geolite2-city 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 geolite2-city using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install geolite2-city
How To Uninstall geolite2-city on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the geolite2-city package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove geolite2-city
geolite2-city Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/GeoIP
/usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLite2-City.mmdb
/usr/share/licenses/geolite2
/usr/share/licenses/geolite2/COPYRIGHT.txt
/usr/share/licenses/geolite2/LICENSE.txt
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install geolite2-city on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.