How To Install IP2Location on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install IP2Location on CentOS 8.
What is IP2Location
ip2location command enables the user to get the country, region, city, coordinates, ZIP code, time zone, ISP, domain name, connection type, area code, weather info, mobile carrier, elevation and usage type from any IP address or hostname. This library has been optimized for speed and memory utilization. The library contains API to query all IP2Location LITE and commercial binary databases. Users can download the latest LITE database from IP2Location web site using e.g. the included downloader.
We can use yum or dnf to install IP2Location on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install IP2Location.
Install IP2Location 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 IP2Location using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install IP2Location
Install IP2Location 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 IP2Location using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install IP2Location
How To Uninstall IP2Location on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the IP2Location package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove IP2Location
IP2Location Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/ip2location
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/20
/usr/lib/.build-id/20/52e89b2a1e2ab5e05c70e89690e6972a29d190
/usr/share/IP2Location/tools
/usr/share/IP2Location/tools/download.pl
/usr/share/doc/IP2Location
/usr/share/doc/IP2Location/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/IP2Location/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/IP2Location/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/IP2Location/README.md
/usr/share/man/man1/ip2location.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install IP2Location on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.