How To Install geoipupdate-cron on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install geoipupdate-cron on CentOS 7. geoipupdate-cron is Cron job to do weekly updates of GeoIP databases

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install geoipupdate-cron on CentOS 7.

What is geoipupdate-cron

Cron job for weekly updates to GeoIP Legacy database from MaxMind.

We can use yum or dnf to install geoipupdate-cron on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install geoipupdate-cron.

Install geoipupdate-cron on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install geoipupdate-cron using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install geoipupdate-cron

Install geoipupdate-cron 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 geoipupdate-cron using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install geoipupdate-cron

How To Uninstall geoipupdate-cron on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the geoipupdate-cron package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove geoipupdate-cron

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install geoipupdate-cron on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.