How to Install Wireshark on Ubuntu

August 18, 2024

In this micro-tutorial I go through installing Wireshark on Ubuntu like operating systems via both the default package manager and PPA (Personal Package Archive). Specifically I am using Linux Mint 21.2 Cinnamon.

The official wireshark site is: https://www.wireshark.org/

Let’s Dive!

Installing Wireshark for Ubuntu

Open your favorite terminal and input the following commands:

Via Default Package Manager

							
							
					sudo apt update
sudo apt install wireshark

Via PPA

							
							
					sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wireshark-dev/stable
sudo apt update
sudo apt install wireshark

You will be prompted to press Enter to continue with adding the wireshark PPA repository. Once the repository is added and it begins installing wireshark you will be prompted to either enable or disable users of the “wireshark” group to be able to utilize the packet sniffing capabilities of wireshark. The default is set to disable, I changed it to enable. It’s up to you. Once it’s done installing you can open wireshark via typing “wireshark” into the terminal.

							
							
					wireshark

If you need higher level permissions to monitor network traffic use:

							
							
					sudo wireshark

That’s a wrap! Thanks for reading!

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How to Install Wireshark on Ubuntu