How To Install geolite2-country on CentOS 8

geolite2-country is Free IP geolocation country database

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install geolite2-country on CentOS 8.

What is geolite2-country

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-country on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install geolite2-country.

Install geolite2-country 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-country using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install geolite2-country

Install geolite2-country 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-country using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install geolite2-country

How To Uninstall geolite2-country on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the geolite2-country package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove geolite2-country

geolite2-country Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/GeoIP
/usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLite2-Country.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-country on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.