How To Install IP2Location-data-sample on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install IP2Location-data-sample on Rocky Linux 8.
What is IP2Location-data-sample
IP2Location C library 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, usage type, address type and category 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. This package contains the sample data files for testing the library. Latest lite databases can be downloaded from https Further sample databases can be downloaded from https
We can use yum or dnf to install IP2Location-data-sample on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install IP2Location-data-sample.
Install IP2Location-data-sample on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install IP2Location-data-sample using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install IP2Location-data-sample
Install IP2Location-data-sample on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install IP2Location-data-sample using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install IP2Location-data-sample
How To Uninstall IP2Location-data-sample on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the IP2Location-data-sample package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove IP2Location-data-sample
IP2Location-data-sample Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/share/IP2Location/IP-COUNTRY-SAMPLE.BIN
/usr/share/IP2Location/IPV6-COUNTRY.SAMPLE.BIN
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install IP2Location-data-sample on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.