xt_geoip_dl_maxmind(1)

🌸 NAME 🌸

xt_geoip_dl_maxmind — bestie, it downloads the MaxMind GeoIP database files for you 💅

This one lives in the xtables-addons manual, section 1. Yes queen, you're in the right place 🫶

✨ SYNTAX ✨

/usr/libexec/xt_geoip/xt_geoip_dl_maxmind [ licence-key file]

That's it. One optional lil argument and she's off 🌈

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so here's the vibe: this script goes and downloads the MaxMind GeoLite2 databases for IPv4 and IPv6, and then unpacks them to the current directory. So like — wherever you ran it from? That's where they land, no cap 📦✨

There's also an alternate script, xt_geoip_dl, if what you're actually after is the DB-IP Country Lite databases instead. Different database, different script, pick your fighter 🎀

And now the part that gets everybody 😭 — this script is usually installed to the libexec directory of the xtables-addons package, and that location is outside $PATH. On purpose. Deliberately. The devs said "not today, PATH" 💀

So what does that mean for you, bestie? It means invoking the script requires it to be called with a path. You cannot just type the name and hope. You gotta give her the whole path, main character energy, full government name. 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

None.

Literally none. Zero. The options section said "None." and I respect her for it 💜 This script takes the optional licence-key file argument from the synopsis and that's the entire menu. Slay, honestly — no flags to memorise, no --help rabbit hole, just vibes 🌸

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• xt_geoip_build_maxmind(1) — the next step in the pipeline, go read her too 🫶

xtables-addons · 2010-12-17 — ok that's the whole page, she's been around since 2010-12-17 and she's still serving ✨ this was xt_geoip_dl_maxmind(1) from the xtables-addons corner of the manual, love u, go build ur geoip database, bye 💖🌟