Open a terminal and use the following commands one by one: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wireshark-dev/stableĮven if you have an older version of Wireshark installed, it will be updated to the newer version. If not, please read our excellent guide on PPA to understand it completely. So, what do you do in such a case? Thankfully, Wireshark developers provide an official PPA that you can use to install the latest stable version of Wireshark on Ubuntu and other Ubuntu-based distributions. The new release brings new features, of course. However, Wireshark 4.0.0 stable version was released a few months ago. One slight problem with this approach is that you might not always get the latest version of Wireshark.įor example, in Ubuntu 22.04, if you use the apt command to check the available version of Wireshark, it is 3.6. If not, you can enable universe repository and then install it by running: sudo apt install wireshark Wireshark is available in the Universe repository of Ubuntu, which is usually enabled by default. In this tutorial, I’ll focus on installing the latest Wireshark version on Ubuntu-based distributions only. You should check out the official installation instructions. Wireshark is available on all major Linux distributions. Installing Wireshark on Ubuntu based Linux distributions I’ll also show a little about setting up and configuring Wireshark to capture packets.

In this tutorial, I will guide you to install Wireshark on Ubuntu and other Ubuntu-based distributions. It is available on all major desktop operating systems like Windows, Linux, macOS, BSD and more. With Wireshark, you can capture incoming and outgoing packets of a network in real time and use it for network troubleshooting, packet analysis, software and communication protocol development, and many more.

Wireshark is a free and open-source network protocol analyzer widely used around the globe.

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