Information about the package, GeoIP, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The GeoIP package is designed for, Library for country/city/organization to IP address or hostname.
Package Name:
GeoIP
Summary:
Library for country/city/organization to IP address or hostname
Description:
GeoIP is a C library that enables the user to find the country that any IP address or hostname originates from. It uses file based databases that can optionally be updated on a weekly basis by installing the geoipupdate-cron (IPv4) and/or geoipupdate-cron6 (IPv6) packages.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.6.5
Release:
1.el6
Size:
310 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
epel
Licence:
LGPLv2+
Control the GeoIP package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install GeoIP
This command will install GeoIP on the server.
yum remove GeoIP
This command will un-install GeoIP on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove GeoIP, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove GeoIP
This command will un-install GeoIP on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove GeoIP when using the -y flag.
yum update GeoIP
This command will update GeoIP to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove GeoIP, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update GeoIP
This command will update GeoIP to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove GeoIP when using the -y flag.
yum info GeoIP
This command will show you core information about the GeoIP package.
yum deplist GeoIP
This command will show you the dependencies for GeoIP. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update GeoIP
This command will check if there is an update waiting on GeoIP. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.