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