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LoukMouk
Asked: 2018-12-15 05:18:59 +0800 CST

Can't install wireshark on ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS

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I created a brand new Ubuntu vm with beaver GUI but can't install wireshark on it.

I used the steps provided on this answer to get wireshark from ppa, but I get errors of dependencies or something...

STEPS:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wireshark-dev/stable
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install wireshark

ERRORS: enter image description here

EDIT 1: I tried to install wireshark-qt but I get the same type of error... enter image description here

EDIT 2: I tried solutions from this post, but none seem to help my case.

$ sudo apt-get autoremove
$ sudo apt-get update
ppa apt wireshark

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You're trying to install from the Wireshark development PPA. It probably needs resources that are not available on 18.04.1.

    Update #1:

    There could also be a problem with "Beaver GUI"... I'm not familiar with it. Sounds like GNOME desktop.

    This originally started as a server install, and other resources may be missing that are required for Wireshark.

    Remove or disable the PPA.

    Then checkmark the following Ubuntu repositories... and reload the databases on quit...

    enter image description here

    Then install Wireshark from Synaptic, the Software Center, or...

    In terminal...

    sudo apt-get update # update the software databases

    sudo apt-get install wireshark # install wireshark

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  2. Try this:

    sudo apt --fix-broken install
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

    Then install with:

    sudo apt-get install wireshark
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