The GeoIP Update program performs automatic updates of GeoIP2 and GeoIP Legacy binary databases. CSV databases are not supported.

Currently the program only supports Linux and other Unix-like systems.

This library is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2.

MaxMind provides a PPA for recent version of Ubuntu. To add the PPA to your sources, run:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:maxmind/ppa

Then install geoipupdate by running:

$ sudo aptitude update
$ sudo aptitude install geoipupdate

To install this from the source package, you will need a C compiler, Make, and the curl library and headers. On Debian or Ubuntu, you can install these dependencies by running:

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential libcurl4-openssl-dev

Once you have the necessary dependencies, run the following commands:

$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

The configure script takes the standard options to set where files are installed such as --prefix, etc. See ./configure --help for details.

To install from Git, you will need automake, autoconf, and libtool installed.

Our public git repository is hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/maxmind/geoipupdate

You can clone this repository and bootstrap it by running:

$ git clone https://github.com/maxmind/geoipupdate
$ cd geoipupdate
$ ./bootstrap

Then follow the instructions above for "Installing From Source Files".

Please see our online guide for directions on how to configure GeoIP Update.

Please report bugs by filing an issue with our GitHub issue tracker at https://github.com/maxmind/geoipupdate/issues

This software is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2 or later.

This software is Copyright (c) 2014 - 2017 by MaxMind, Inc.