Wireshark released a new series of stable version 2.6 series having Legacy (GTK+) user interface and it no longer available from 3.0 se...
Wireshark an open-source protocol analyzer software mainly used to monitor the traffic in a network, recently version 2.6.1 released and easy to install it via Official PPA.
What's new in Wireshark 2.6.1?
- The Windows installers now ship with Qt 5.9.5. Previously they shipped with Qt 5.9.4.
New Protocol Support:
BATADV, BT LE LL, CoAP, DNS, DTLS, GSM A DTAP, GSM A GM, GTP, GTPv2, IEEE 1905.1a, IEEE 802.11, LDSS, LwM2M-TLV, MAC LTE, NAS EPS, Q.931, RTCP, RTMPT, SDP, TCP, and VITA 49So how to install it?
- Method 1: Via PPA
- Method 2: Via source code
Method 1: Via PPA
Step 1: Add the official PPAsudo add-apt-repository ppa:wireshark-dev/stableStep 2: update the repository
sudo apt-get updateStep 3: Install Wireshark 2.6.1
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 dependenciesapt-get install libssl-dev libpcap-devStep 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-2.6.1.tar.bz2
tar -xvf wireshark-2.6.1.tar.bz2Step 3: Configure the source
./configureStep 4: Compile the Wireshark
make && make install
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