Installing GeoIP on CentOS

Question

On CentOS 6 I cannot install GeoIP even though many websites describe installing GeoIP with the following commands:

yum install GeoIP GeoIP-devel GeoIP-data

I get No package GeoIP available.

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 24 '12 at 12:12

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Seems like you need to add an additional repository. In CentOS5 the Geoip stuff was located in Centos Extras. Check out this link: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories

If the package is not in Extras try out the EPEL repo (howto is in the link above), they have the packages: http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/repoview/letter_g.group.html

answered Mar 24 '12 at 12:12

zaub3r3r

It was in EPEL. Extras was already enabled by default. – unixman83 Mar 24 '12 at 12:51
how do i install on ubuntu – chovy Dec 26 '15 at 20:46
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On Ubuntu : sudo apt-get install libgeoip-dev – hugsbrugs Oct 26 '16 at 19:30
To add EPEL repo you can do `yum install epel-release` – chicks Jan 25 '17 at 01:08
seems like your last link is not working any longer – Marc May 08 '18 at 21:33

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 25 '17 at 00:18

Expanding on the accepted answer above by @zaub3r3r - (Sorry I don't have enough rep to comment here)

GeoIP is in EPEL. You might have it but it may not be enabled - if this is the case then try:

yum -y --enablerepo=epel install geoip

This had me stumped for ages today until I realised what was going on.

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