How To Install geoipupdate-cron on CentOS 7
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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install geoipupdate-cron on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
