Information about the package, geoip-geolite, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The geoip-geolite package is designed for, Free IP geolocation databases.
Package Name:
geoip-geolite
Summary:
Free IP geolocation databases
Description:
The GeoLite databases are free IP geolocation databases. The GeoLite databases are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The attribution requirement may be met by including the following in all advertising and documentation mentioning features of or use of this database: "This product includes GeoLite data created by MaxMind, available from http://www.maxmind.com".
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
2013.04
Release:
1.el6
Size:
24 M
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
CC-BY-SA
Control the geoip-geolite package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install geoip-geolite
This command will install geoip-geolite on the server.
yum remove geoip-geolite
This command will un-install geoip-geolite on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove geoip-geolite, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove geoip-geolite
This command will un-install geoip-geolite 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 when using the -y flag.
yum update geoip-geolite
This command will update geoip-geolite to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove geoip-geolite, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update geoip-geolite
This command will update geoip-geolite 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 when using the -y flag.
yum info geoip-geolite
This command will show you core information about the geoip-geolite package.
yum deplist geoip-geolite
This command will show you the dependencies for geoip-geolite. 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
This command will check if there is an update waiting on geoip-geolite. 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.