Information about the package, geolite2-city, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The geolite2-city package is designed for, Free IP geolocation city database.
Package Name:
geolite2-city
Summary:
Free IP geolocation city database
Description:
GeoLite2 databases are free IP geolocation databases comparable to, but less accurate than, MaxMind's GeoIP2 databases. This product includes GeoLite2 data created by MaxMind, available from http://www.maxmind.com.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
20180403
Release:
1.el6
Size:
19 M
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
CC-BY-SA
Control the geolite2-city package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install geolite2-city
This command will install geolite2-city on the server.
yum remove geolite2-city
This command will un-install geolite2-city on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove geolite2-city, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove geolite2-city
This command will un-install geolite2-city 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 geolite2-city when using the -y flag.
yum update geolite2-city
This command will update geolite2-city to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove geolite2-city, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update geolite2-city
This command will update geolite2-city 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 geolite2-city when using the -y flag.
yum info geolite2-city
This command will show you core information about the geolite2-city package.
yum deplist geolite2-city
This command will show you the dependencies for geolite2-city. 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 geolite2-city
This command will check if there is an update waiting on geolite2-city. 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.