Install Wireshark 2.2.5 in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS & LinuxMint

Wireshark an open source protocol analyzer software mainly used to monitor the traffic in a network , recently version 2.2.5 released and easy to install it via Official PPA.

Wireshark got it's new interface in the version 2.0 series and it is written in QT5.

Changelog in Wireshark 2.2.5

For detailed changelog refer this link


Protocol Support:

6LoWPAN, AllJoyn, AMPQ, ANSI IS-637 A, BGP, CLNP, DCERPC, DICOM, DTN, E.212, EIGRP, ERF, GVSP, IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.15.4, IP, ISO-8583, Kerberos, L2TP, LACP, MAC LTE, OpenFlow, Profinet I/O, RTPS, SCTP, SDP, Skype, SMPP, SNA, SNMP, SPNEGO, TCP, USB Audio, XML, and ZigBee

Installation Instructions

Method 1 : Via PPA
Method 2 : Via source code

Method 1 : Via PPA

Step 1 : Add the official PPA

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

Step 2 : update the repository

sudo apt-get update

Step 3 : Install wireshark 2.2.5

sudo apt-get install wireshark

During the installation,it will require to confirm security about allowing non-superuser to execute Wireshark. 

Just confirm YES if you want to. If you check on NO, you must run Wireshark with sudo. Later, you can change this by using the below,

sudo dpkg-reconfigure wireshark-common

Method 2 : Via source code

Step 1 : Before proceeding for installation , install the dependencies

apt-get install libssl-dev libpcap-dev

Step 2 : Download the source file from their download page or use the below command and extract it

wget https://1.na.dl.wireshark.org/src/wireshark-2.2.5.tar.bz2

tar -xvf wireshark-2.2.5.tar.bz2

Step 3 : Configure the source

./configure

Step 4 : Compile the wireshark

make && make install