Howto install GeoIP C API in GNU/Linux

MaxMind’s GeoIP C api is used by various programs to map IP address to locations .

Here is the procedure to install this :

Download the latest source from http://www.maxmind.com/download/geoip/api/c/

mkdir /usr/local/geoip

./configure –prefix=/usr/local/geoip –exec-prefix=/usr/local/geoip

make

make install

Now we have to make the system loader load the shared libraries

Add the following to /etc/ld.so.conf.d/geoip.conf

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cat /etc/ld.so.conf.d/geoip.conf
/usr/local/geoip/lib
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ldconfig

If all goes well , you should have GeoIP installed in /usr/local/geoip

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Michael Says:
October 31st, 2008 at 5:25 pm
I get the following error when trying to configure:

$ sudo ./configure –prefix=/usr/local/geoip –exec-prefix=/usr/local/geoip
configure: error: invalid variable name: –prefix

I’m running Ubuntu 8.04 Server Edition, and this is the latest MaxMind API, GeoIP-1.4.5 .
Anoop Alias Says:
October 31st, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Its a double hyphen.. The error clearly states that the (double hyphen ) prefix is taken as a variable and not as an option
Happy Computing
Anoop
Michael Says:
October 31st, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Thanks Anoop, it works now. Problem was, I was copying from Firefox and pasting into the terminal window…for some reason Firefox is not processing the double hyphen as two hyphens but rather as an em dash - thus the terminal was interpreting it as a single hyphen.
ads Says:
November 20th, 2008 at 7:32 am
That’s because the original post contains the error: single hyphen (-) and not double (–).

Your firefox is working just fine. It’s typo on this post.