mmdblookup command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

mmdblookup: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mmdblookup: command not found

Solutions to mmdblookup: command not found

How To Fix mmdblookup: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mmdblookup is provided by mmdb-bin package.

mmdb-bin is:

The libmaxminddb library provides a C library for reading MaxMind DB files, including the GeoIP2 databases from MaxMind. This is a custom binary format designed to facilitate fast lookups of IP addresses while allowing for great flexibility in the type of data associated with an address.

The MaxMind DB format is an open format. The spec is available at http://maxmind.github.io/MaxMind-DB/. This spec is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

This package contains the command line utilities to resolve IPs using the libmaxminddb library.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install mmdb-bin

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install mmdb-bin.

sudo apt -y install mmdb-bin

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install mmdb-bin

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix mmdblookup command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.