Information about the package, geoipupdate-cron6, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The geoipupdate-cron6 package is designed for, Cron job to do weekly updates of GeoIP IPv6 databases.
Package Name:
geoipupdate-cron6
Summary:
Cron job to do weekly updates of GeoIP IPv6 databases
Description:
Cron job for weekly updates to GeoIP IPv6 Legacy database from MaxMind.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
2.2.1
Release:
2.el6
Size:
6.4 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2
Control the geoipupdate-cron6 package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install geoipupdate-cron6
This command will install geoipupdate-cron6 on the server.
yum remove geoipupdate-cron6
This command will un-install geoipupdate-cron6 on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove geoipupdate-cron6, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove geoipupdate-cron6
This command will un-install geoipupdate-cron6 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 geoipupdate-cron6 when using the -y flag.
yum update geoipupdate-cron6
This command will update geoipupdate-cron6 to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove geoipupdate-cron6, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update geoipupdate-cron6
This command will update geoipupdate-cron6 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 geoipupdate-cron6 when using the -y flag.
yum info geoipupdate-cron6
This command will show you core information about the geoipupdate-cron6 package.
yum deplist geoipupdate-cron6
This command will show you the dependencies for geoipupdate-cron6. 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 geoipupdate-cron6
This command will check if there is an update waiting on geoipupdate-cron6. 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.