GeoIP uses a large database to find information about a given IP address or website. I went through a couple different package installations before it integrated with my programs successfully. The fairly simple process I settled upon to set up the functional package, pygeoip (python API for GeoIP), is as follows:

sudo easy_install pygeoip
cd /usr

To find the path of GeoIP.dat, embrace the power of   (not ',   on US keyboards shares a key with ~).

find `pwd` -name 'GeoIP.dat'

After downloading GeoLiteCity.dat, a simple way rename the file to GeoIPCity.dat whilst moving said file to the same path as GeoIP.dat (for convenience)…

sudo mv Downloads/GeoLiteCity.dat /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIPCity.dat

In order to check the success of your environment’s set-up, run this as a py script or in a term window

import pygeoip
#gi = pygeoip.GeoIP('/usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIP.dat', pygeoip.MEMORY_CACHE)
gi = pygeoip.GeoIP('/usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIPCity.dat)
print gi.record_by_addr('64.233.161.99')