Install Wireshark 2.4.1 in Ubuntu 17.04 / 16.04 LTS & LinuxMint

Wireshark an open-source protocol analyzer software mainly used to monitor the traffic in a network, analysis, and development, Recently version 2.4.1 released and easy to install it via Official PPA by developers.

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

In this tutorial, I will show you how to install the latest version of Wireshark 2.4.1 on Ubuntu 17.04 / 16.04 and LinuxMint 18.x

Changelog in Wireshark 2.4.1

This release has no new features and no new protocols

For detailed changelog refer this link

Updated Protocol Support:

BGP, BT LE, DIS, DNS, E.212, EPL, GTP, GTPv2, IEEE 802.11, InfiniBand, IPv4, IrCOMM, MKA, Modbus, MPEG Descriptor, MRCPv2, MSDP, MTP2, Nordic BLE, NVMe, OSPF, pcapng MIME, PMIPv6, Profinet I/O, RADIUS, SML, TCAP, TRANSUM, UA3G, UDP, VNC, 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 2.4.1

sudo apt-get install wireshark

During the installation, it will require confirming 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, if you want to change this,

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://2.na.dl.wireshark.org/src/wireshark-2.4.1.tar.xz

tar -xvf wireshark-2.4.1.tar.bz2

Step 3: Configure the source

./configure

Step 4: Compile the Wireshark

make && make install