Information about the package, GeoIP-GeoLite-data-extra, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The GeoIP-GeoLite-data-extra package is designed for, Free GeoLite IP geolocation databases.
Package Name:
GeoIP-GeoLite-data-extra
Summary:
Free GeoLite IP geolocation databases
Description:
The GeoLite databases are free IP geolocation databases. This package contains databases that map IPv6 addresses to countries, plus IPv4 and IPv6 addresses to cities and autonomous system numbers. This product includes GeoLite data created by MaxMind, available from http://www.maxmind.com/
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
2018.04
Release:
1.el6
Size:
26 M
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
CC-BY-SA
Control the GeoIP-GeoLite-data-extra package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install GeoIP-GeoLite-data-extra
This command will install GeoIP-GeoLite-data-extra on the server.
yum remove GeoIP-GeoLite-data-extra
This command will un-install GeoIP-GeoLite-data-extra on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove GeoIP-GeoLite-data-extra, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove GeoIP-GeoLite-data-extra
This command will un-install GeoIP-GeoLite-data-extra 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-GeoLite-data-extra when using the -y flag.
yum update GeoIP-GeoLite-data-extra
This command will update GeoIP-GeoLite-data-extra to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove GeoIP-GeoLite-data-extra, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update GeoIP-GeoLite-data-extra
This command will update GeoIP-GeoLite-data-extra 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-GeoLite-data-extra when using the -y flag.
yum info GeoIP-GeoLite-data-extra
This command will show you core information about the GeoIP-GeoLite-data-extra package.
yum deplist GeoIP-GeoLite-data-extra
This command will show you the dependencies for GeoIP-GeoLite-data-extra. 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-GeoLite-data-extra
This command will check if there is an update waiting on GeoIP-GeoLite-data-extra. 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.