[Bug 1811029] Re: Package installation fails when attempting to download GeoIP database files

[Kye Russell]

Oops, was meant for geoip-database-contrib. My bad.

** Package changed: geoip-database (Ubuntu) => geoip-database-contrib
(Ubuntu)

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Title:
  Package installation fails when attempting to download GeoIP database
  files

Status in geoip-database-contrib package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Selecting previously unselected package geoip-database-contrib.
  dpkg: considering removing geoip-database in favour of geoip-database-contrib ...
  dpkg: yes, will remove geoip-database in favour of geoip-database-contrib
  (Reading database ... 46544 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to unpack geoip-database-contrib_1.19_all.deb ...
  Unpacking geoip-database-contrib (1.19) ...
  Setting up geoip-database-contrib (1.19) ...
  debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
  debconf: (TERM is not set, so the dialog frontend is not usable.)
  debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
  debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline
  debconf: (This frontend requires a controlling tty.)
  debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype
  Downloading: http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCountry/GeoIP.dat.gz
  Failed to download http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCountry/GeoIP.dat.gz
  Downloading: http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoIPv6.dat.gz
  Downloading: http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz
  Failed to download http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz
  Downloading: http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCityv6-beta/GeoLiteCityv6.dat.gz
  Downloading: http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/asnum/GeoIPASNum.dat.gz
  Failed to download http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/asnum/GeoIPASNum.dat.gz
  Downloading: http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/asnum/GeoIPASNumv6.dat.gz

  Creating config file /etc/cron.d/geoip-database-contrib with new version
  update-alternatives: error: alternative path /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLiteCity.dat doesn't exist
  dpkg: error processing package geoip-database-contrib (--install):
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   geoip-database-contrib

  This is due to Maxmind retiring their v1 geolite database.

  https://blog.maxmind.com/2018/01/02/discontinuation-of-the-geolite-
  legacy-databases/

  The new versions are at URLs but - more importantly - are in a
  completely different format.

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