How to Install and Uninstall geoipupdate Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: January 11,2025

1. Install "geoipupdate" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install geoipupdate on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                geoipupdate
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "geoipupdate" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall geoipupdate on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                geoipupdate
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the geoipupdate package on Kali Linux

Package: geoipupdate
Version: 6.1.0-1
Installed-Size: 5700
Maintainer: Faidon Liambotis
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), ca-certificates
Suggests: mmdb-bin
Size: 1883464
SHA256: def7e3d6fbcc2142f0cc5f06e064270368d1a5d34c5b2e7393eb45cf4d1f657d
SHA1: e65f93607defcfb2ee7d01790c7e30308ce60b06
MD5sum: 3bb4a39e8b99ee6ce83fb8d4bdabed39
Description: MaxMind GeoIP/GeoIP2 database updates
The GeoIP Update program performs automatic updates of GeoIP2 and GeoLite2
binary databases, as supplied by MaxMind. These may be MaxMind's paid
products, or their GeoLite variants that are less accurate but provided
without charge.
Description-md5:
Homepage: https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/updating-databases
Static-Built-Using: golang-1.21 (= 1.21.6-1), golang-github-cenkalti-backoff (= 4.2.1-1), golang-github-gofrs-flock (= 0.8.1-1), golang-github-spf13-pflag (= 1.0.6~git20210604-d5e0c0615ace-1), golang-golang-x-sync (= 0.5.0-1)
Section: contrib/net
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/contrib/g/geoipupdate/geoipupdate_6.1.0-1_amd64.deb