How To Install IP2Location on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install IP2Location on Rocky Linux 8. IP2Location is Tools for mapping IP address to geolocation information

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install IP2Location on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install IP2Location.

Install IP2Location 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 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install IP2Location

Install IP2Location 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 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install IP2Location

How To Uninstall IP2Location on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the IP2Location package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove IP2Location

IP2Location Package Contents on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.