libipmeta

Libipmeta is a library to support the execution of historical and realtime IP metadata lookups using Maxmind GeoIP, NetAcuity (Digital Element) geolocation, and CAIDA Prefix-To-AS databases.

Installation

Debian/Ubuntu

Add CAIDA package repository:

curl https://pkg.caida.org/os/ubuntu/bootstrap.sh | bash

(of course, you should inspect this script before running it)

Install libipmeta

sudo apt install ipmeta

From Release Tarball

1. Install libwandio.
2. Download a release.

Then:

./configure
make
sudo make install

On some systems you may need to also run sudo ldconfig after installation.

Install via clone (initializing submodules)

First, make sure you have automake, autoconf and libtool installed on your system (e.g. sudo apt-get install autoconf automake libtool on Debian/Ubuntu).

Then run the following commands in sequence:

git clone https://github.com/CAIDA/libipmeta.git
cd libipmeta
git submodule init
git submodule update
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig