How To Install GeoIP on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install GeoIP on CentOS 7.
What is GeoIP
GeoIP is a C library that enables the user to find the country that any IP address or hostname originates from. It uses a file based database that is accurate as of June 2007 and can optionally be updated on a weekly basis by installing the GeoIP-update package. This database simply contains IP blocks as keys, and countries as values. This database should be more complete and accurate than using reverse DNS lookups. This package includes GeoLite data created by MaxMind, available from http GeoIP is a C library that enables the user to find the country that any IP address or hostname originates from. It uses a file based database that is accurate as of June 2007 and can optionally be updated on a weekly basis by installing the GeoIP-update package. This database simply contains IP blocks as keys, and countries as values. This database should be more complete and accurate than using reverse DNS lookups. This package includes GeoLite data created by MaxMind, available from http
We can use yum or dnf to install GeoIP on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install GeoIP.
Install GeoIP on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install GeoIP using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install GeoIP
Install GeoIP on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install GeoIP using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install GeoIP
How To Uninstall GeoIP on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the GeoIP package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove GeoIP
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install GeoIP on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.