Installing Wireshark on Linux

Installing Wireshark on Linux will differ, based on the distribution that you're using. Here, I'm using one of the most common distributions available: Ubuntu. In order to install Wireshark, perform the following steps:

  1. We'll go to the Ubuntu software application; go ahead and click on that and we'll search for synaptic:
Synaptic is a package manager similar to the Ubuntu software application, but it gives you more control.
  1. Simply click on Install; enter your administrator password (your root password) and the software will be installed:
  1. Go ahead and click on Synaptic Package Manager to open that up. Enter ...

Get Mastering Wireshark 2 now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.