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unixman83
Asked: 2012-03-25 03:56:40 +0800 CST

Installing GeoIP on CentOS

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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.

centos centos6 geoip

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    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

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  2. 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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