Install Wireshark Network Protocol Analyzer on Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 15.04 and Ubuntu Derivatives. Wireshark 2.0.1 is the current stable release of Wireshark protocol analyzer application. The current release supersedes all previous releases.
Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer for Unix and Windows. Wireshark is the world’s foremost network protocol analyzer. It lets you see what’s happening on your network at a microscopic level. It is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions. Wireshark development thrives thanks to the contributions of networking experts across the globe. It is the continuation of a project that started in 1998.
Wireshark has a rich feature set which includes the following:
- Deep inspection of hundreds of protocols, with more being added all the time
- Live capture and offline analysis
- Standard three-pane packet browser
- Multi-platform: Runs on Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and many others
- Captured network data can be browsed via a GUI, or via the TTY-mode TShark utilit
- The most powerful display filters in the industry
- Rich VoIP analysis
- Read/write many different capture file formats: tcpdump (libpcap), Pcap NG, Catapult DCT2000, Cisco Secure IDS iplog, Microsoft Network Monitor, Network General Sniffer® (compressed and uncompressed), Sniffer® Pro, and NetXray®, Network Instruments Observer, NetScreen snoop, Novell LANalyzer, RADCOM WAN/LAN Analyzer, Shomiti/Finisar Surveyor, Tektronix K12xx, Visual Networks Visual UpTime, WildPackets EtherPeek/TokenPeek/AiroPeek, and many others
- Capture files compressed with gzip can be decompressed on the fly
- Live data can be read from Ethernet, IEEE 802.11, PPP/HDLC, ATM, Bluetooth, USB, Token Ring, Frame Relay, FDDI, and others (depending on your platform)
- Decryption support for many protocols, including IPsec, ISAKMP, Kerberos, SNMPv3, SSL/TLS, WEP, and WPA/WPA2
- Coloring rules can be applied to the packet list for quick, intuitive analysis
- Output can be exported to XML, PostScript®, CSV, or plain text
Install Wireshark 2.0.1 on Ubuntu
Wireshark 2.0.1 is the current stable release of Wireshark protocol analyzer application. The current release supersedes all previous releases. Wireshark 2.0.1 can be installed on Linux Ubuntu Systems – Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 15.04 and Ubuntu Derivatives. Run the following command to install Wireshark, via PPA on Ubuntu:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nicola-onorata/desktop
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install wireshark
If you want to uninstall and remove Wireshark, run the command:
$ sudo apt-get remove wireshark