How To Install GeoIP-data on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install GeoIP-data on CentOS 7.
What is GeoIP-data
Snapshot of IPv4 and IPv6 databases for GeoIP. These databases are not regularly updated, use a cron job from GeoIP-update package to get fresh ones. This package includes GeoLite data created by MaxMind, available from http
We can use yum or dnf to install GeoIP-data on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install GeoIP-data.
Install GeoIP-data 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-data using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install GeoIP-data
Install GeoIP-data 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-data using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install GeoIP-data
How To Uninstall GeoIP-data on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the GeoIP-data package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove GeoIP-data
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install GeoIP-data on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
