GeoIP: Cannot redeclare geoip_country_code_by_name()

I need to run piwik on the same server where I host my wordpress portal.
I am running ubuntu 13.04, thus I installed the following geoip components:

sudo apt-get install php5-geoip php5-dev libgeoip-dev

Since then I get the following error in wordpress. I think it’s because wp-insert is trying to load geoip once again, although the module is already loaded in PHP.

PHP Fatal Error: Cannot redeclare geoip_country_code_by_name() in […]/wp-insert/includes/common/geoip/geoip.inc on line 438

Could you please include_once instead of including the geoip component? The problem is with a namespace conflict under geoip_country_code_by_name.

Some people suggest to put it within an if-statement like this:

if (!function_exists('geoip_country_code_by_name')){
    function geoip_country_code_by_name($gi, $name) {
      $country_id = geoip_country_id_by_name($gi,$name);
      if ($country_id !== false) {
            return $gi->GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODES[$country_id];
      }
      return false;
    }
}

HTH

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