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Stanislav Jirák
Asked: 2015-11-22 01:50:51 +0800 CST

How to install Wireshark

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I am new to Linux and have a need to install Wireshark 2.0.0 on VirtualBox's Xubuntu 14.04. I have already downloaded .tar.gz package and extracted it. Then I opened terminal in the wireshark folder and type /.configure with intention to follow it by make and sudo make install executions but the attempt as unsuccessful as sudo apt-get install wireshark. Could somebody help me how to install Wireshark step by step, please?

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6 Answers

  1. Step 1: Add the stable official PPA. To do this, go to terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T and run:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wireshark-dev/stable

    Step 2: Update the repository:

    sudo apt-get update

    Step 3: Install wireshark 2.0:

    sudo apt-get install wireshark

    Step 4: Run wireshark:

    sudo wireshark

    If you get a error couldn't run /usr/bin/dumpcap in child process: Permission Denied. go to the terminal again and run:

    sudo dpkg-reconfigure wireshark-common

    Say YES to the message box. This adds a wireshark group. Then add user to the group by typing

    sudo adduser $USER wireshark

    Then restart your machine and open wireshark. It works. Good Luck.

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  2. Open terminal and type the commands:

    1. sudo apt-get install wireshark
    2. sudo dpkg-reconfigure wireshark-common
    3. sudo adduser $USER wireshark
    4. wireshark

    If you getting wireshark running error, so close it and then just do the following:

    1. Go to usr/share/wireshark
    2. Open init.lua with a text editor
    3. Change disable_lua = false to disable_lua = true
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  3. To do this, go to terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T and run:

    sudo apt install wireshark

    Apt should take care of all of the dependency issues for you.

    Use the following command to install downloaded Wireshark debs:

    dpkg -i wireshark-common_2.0.5.0-1_i386.deb wireshark_wireshark-2.0.5.0-1_i386.deb

    dpkg doesn’t take care of all dependencies, but reports what’s missing. You can usually resolve problems by then running

    sudo apt install -f
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  4. For those on ubuntu 18.04, go to terminal and run:

    sudo apt install wireshark

    It will install wireshark ( in my case v2.6.8 ) and you will be asked to add dumpcap in wireshark user group so you don't need to be root to execute it.

    If you say:

    NO > you're good to go, but you gonna need root privileges to run it.

    YES > after installation finishes you should add yourself to wireshark user group:

    sudo usermod -a -G wireshark YOUR_USERNAME

    That's ALL!

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  5. To add to Thusitha's answer, in Step 4 you either run as sudo or if you do not want to run all processes as root, then you set the message box to 'YES' (to install dumpcap in such a way that it allows users of the wireshark group to run it without sudo) and add user to wireshark group. (be sure to log out and log in before running wireshark so that the group privileges are reloaded). You can then just run wireshark without root.

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    1. Type sudo apt update The APT package repository cache should be updated.

    2. Now, Run the following command to install Wireshark on your Ubuntu machine: sudo apt install wireshark

    By default, Wireshark must be started as root (can also be done with sudo) privileges in order to work. If you want to run Wireshark without root privileges or without sudo, then select and press .

    1. Wireshark should be installed.
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