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Quicklinks: Wireshark: Installation Chapter

Download Wireshark. The current stable release of Wireshark is 3.4.4. It supersedes all previous releases. Wireshark is the world’s foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer. It lets you see what’s happening on your network at a microscopic level and is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many commercial and non-profit enterprises, government agencies, and educational institutions. There should be an uninstaller named uninistall.exe in Wireshark's installation directory. Its complete path should be in HKLM Software Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Uninstall Wireshark UninstallString. More recent versions provide a quiet uninstall path, but this is simply the uninstaller with a '/S' argument.

Install Wireshark with a Package Manager

Where available, prefer your package manager. Note that Wireshark v3 is not currently available on many Linux package managers (this will change soon).

Installing tshark Only

Note: If you have not used tshark before, you should install the wiresharkpackage as above before limiting yourself to the CLI.

If you want to install just tshark and no Qt/GUI components, this is possible onvarious linux distributions. The package is called tshark or wireshark-clidepending on the platform.

Install the package tshark:

• Alpine >= 3.9
• Debian >= 9
• FreeBSD >= 11
• OpenMandriva >= 3.0
• PCLinuxOS
• Ubuntu >= 14.04

Install the package wireshark-cli.

• Arch Linux
• CentOS >= 8
• Fedora >= 30
• RedHat

For up-to-date package information, check the package registry fortshark andwireshark-cli

Install with a package

To get the most up-to-date official packages, visit Wireshark’s Download Page.

There are multiple packages available from Wireshark’s download page. The installation is simple, but make sure to check the components that.

Install from Source

Linux currently does not have packages in official repositories, so if you want the latest, you have to build it (this will likely change soon).

Linux, v3.0.0

You need to install from source to get v3 on Linux. This will get a clean system on Ubuntu18.04 to an install:

If you are on a different system, only the last 3 steps apply. Make sure thatyou’ve satisfied the other dependencies. cmake will kindly let you know if youhaven’t.

Check Installation

1. Check Version

If the version doesn’t match the expected one, you may want toinstall from source or use Wireshark’s download page.

2. Check Interfaces

tshark -D will list all interfaces that it sees.

dumpcap does not see and cannot capture on virtual interfaces. This means that dumpcap -D will show fewer interfaces than tshark -D.

Different systems will report different interfaces. tshark will treat the first interface as the default interface and capture from it by default.In other words, tshark aliases to tshark -i 1. You may need to use sudo depending on your installation.Default interfaces on installs of macos, windows, linux, and freebsd are shown below.

3. Test Live Capture

Entering the tshark command should immediately start capturing packets on the default interface. If you donot see packets, check out Choosing an Interface.

4. Make Sure Utilities are on $PATH

Setting up your environment should be done once and done well. There are a coupleAdditional work is usually necessary to make sure all utilities are on the path.

bash

You can verify whether all are installed with the following:

If a util is installed but not on your $PATH, you can use find / -name $util 2>/dev/nullto find out where it may be. For example, on Linux for 3.0.0, extcap tools areat /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/wireshark/extcap. To add them to your path, useecho 'export PATH=$PATH:$folder' >> ~/.profile.

Wireshark Browser

Powershell on Windows

Wireshark Browser Version

Currently, extcap utils need to bemoved from Wiresharkextcap => Wiresharkto be useable. If you have not added your %Program Files% to your $PATH, you cando that with an Admin user:

[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable(
'PATH', '$PATH;$ENV:ProgramFilesWireshark', 'Machine')

Brew Wireshark Gui

You will need to reopen Powershell for the $PATH to be updated.