Installing Wireshark on macOS

To install Wireshark on macOS, perform the following steps:

  1. Start by going to the https://www.wireshark.org/ web page.
  2. When you're on the web page, scroll down on the main page, and click on Download. The latest version of Wireshark will be displayed.
  3. Go down to macOS 10.6 and later Intel 64-bit .dmg, and click on it to download:
  1. At this point, we can choose to save the file to our Downloads folder and then open it, or simply open it directly off the web page with the DiskImageMounter (default).
  2. Go ahead and click on OK. It downloads the file and opens it up.
  1. We can then double-click on the PKG file, and ...

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