Re: How to install geoiplookup?

Hi,

On 2024-06-07 15:53, Rody wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Trying to prepare myself to get command line geoip lookups working. Running
> 13.3-RELEASE-p1 of freebsd. It seems the pkg libmaxminddb is installed by
> default but missing the tools to access the data.
> 
> The following page tells me to install the libmaxminddb via ports:
> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/geoiplookup-for-the-new-geolite2-country-db.69866/
> But it does not include info for when you've never used ports before.
> 
> The following page tell what to do to get started with ports:
> https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/ports/
> And tells me that if ports was not installed during install, I should use a
> series of commands to use git.

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Try,

% cd /usr
% fetch http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz
% tar -xvzf ports.tar.gz [lots of output]
% whereis libmaxminddb
/usr/ports/net/libmaxminddb
% cd /usr/ports/net/libmaxminddb
su
# make install clean

Per


> Rody
> 
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