Once installed, open Wireshark from Ubuntu Dash. If in doubt, it is suggested to leave it disabled. Enabling this feature may be a security risk, so it is disabled by default. This is recommended over the alternative of running Wireshark/Tshark directly as root, because less of the code will run with elevated privileges. It is a method to specifiy that should non-superusers be able to capture packets? Dumpcap can be installed in a way that allows members of the “wireshark” system group to capture packets. Sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wireshark-dev/stableĭuring the installation, it will ask you to configure wireshark-common. Run the following command to install Wireshark on Ubuntu: Wireshark 2.4, the latest release of Network Protocol Analyzer can be installed on Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 14.04 Systems. Wireshark 2.4.0 Network Analyzer brings an updated Protocol support for AMQP, BGP, BSSMAP, BT RFCOMM, DAAP, DOCSIS, E.212, FDDI, GSM A GM, GSM BSSMAP, IEEE 802.11, IP, ISIS LSP, LTE RRC, MQ, OpenSafety, OSPF, PROFINET IO, RANAP, SCCP, SGSAP, SMB2, TCAP, TCP, UMTS FP, UMTS RLC, WBXML, WSMP, and Y.1711.
Wireshark 2.4 Network Protocol Analyzer brings no new features or new file format decoding support.