How To Install geoip-database on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install geoip-database
on Kali Linux.
What is geoip-database
geoip-database is:
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.
This database simply contains IP blocks as keys, and countries as values and it should be more complete and accurate than using reverse DNS lookups.
This package contains the free GeoLiteCountry database.
There are three methods to install geoip-database
on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install geoip-database Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install geoip-database
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install geoip-database Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install geoip-database
using apt
by running the following command:
Install geoip-database Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install geoip-database
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall geoip-database on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the geoip-database
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall geoip-database And Its Dependencies
To uninstall geoip-database
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove geoip-database Configurations and Data
To remove geoip-database
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove geoip-database configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove geoip-database
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
geoip-database have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install geoip-database
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.