How To Install geoipupdate on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install geoipupdate in Fedora 36. geoipupdate is Update GeoIP2 binary databases from MaxMind

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install geoipupdate on Fedora 36.

What is geoipupdate

The GeoIP Update program performs automatic updates of GeoIP2 binary databases.

We can use yum or dnf to install geoipupdate on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install geoipupdate.

Install geoipupdate on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install geoipupdate using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install geoipupdate

Install geoipupdate on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 Fedora 36

To uninstall only the geoipupdate package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove geoipupdate

geoipupdate Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/GeoIP.conf
/usr/bin/geoipupdate
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/55
/usr/lib/.build-id/55/68ba3719b5bf14742f072091a9cdc07aba980f
/usr/share/GeoIP
/usr/share/doc/geoipupdate
/usr/share/doc/geoipupdate/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/geoipupdate/GeoIP.conf.default
/usr/share/doc/geoipupdate/GeoIP.conf.md
/usr/share/doc/geoipupdate/README.md
/usr/share/doc/geoipupdate/geoipupdate.md
/usr/share/licenses/geoipupdate
/usr/share/licenses/geoipupdate/LICENSE-APACHE
/usr/share/licenses/geoipupdate/LICENSE-MIT
/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 Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).