How to Install Geo2tz on Fedora Server

Geo2tz is a lightweight utility that lets you convert geographical coordinates to time zone identifiers. It can be useful for a variety of applications that need to know a user's time zone based on their location. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to install Geo2tz on a Fedora Server.

Step 1: Install Dependencies

Before installing Geo2tz, we need to install some dependencies on our system. These include the GCC compiler, the Make build tool, and the Standard C Library.

sudo dnf install gcc make glibc-devel

Step 2: Download Geo2tz

Next, we need to download the Geo2tz source code from its GitHub repository.

git clone https://github.com/noandrea/geo2tz.git

Step 3: Build Geo2tz

Once the code has been downloaded, navigate to the Geo2tz directory and run the Make command to build the program.

cd geo2tz
make

Step 4: Install Geo2tz

After the program has been built, we can install it to our system by running the following command:

sudo make install

This will copy the Geo2tz binary to the system's default binary path, which usually is /usr/local/bin/.

Step 5: Verify Geo2tz Installation

To verify that Geo2tz has been installed correctly, run the following command:

geo2tz --version

This should print the current version of the program.

Conclusion

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Geo2tz on your Fedora Server. You can now use the command-line utility to convert geographical coordinates to time zones. To get started, refer to the program's documentation by running "geo2tz --help".