{"id":6620,"date":"2017-03-14T15:20:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T15:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=6620"},"modified":"2017-03-14T15:20:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T15:20:15","slug":"install-wireshark-2-2-5-ubuntu-16-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2017\/03\/install-wireshark-2-2-5-ubuntu-16-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Wireshark 2.2.5 in Ubuntu 16.10, 16.04, 14.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wireshark-icon2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wireshark-icon2.png\" alt=\"wireshark \" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5449\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The most popular network protocol analyzer, Wireshark 2.2.5, was finally made into PPA repository more than a week after its release date.<\/p>\n<p>Wireshark 2.2.5 is mainly a bug-fix release. The changes include updated protocol support and the following bug-fixes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Infinite loop: RTMTP dissector, WSP dissector, STANAG 4607 file parser, NetScaler file parser, IAX2 dissector, and NetScaler file parser.<\/li>\n<li>Crashes: LDSS dissector, NetScaler file parser, and K12 file parser.<\/li>\n<li>Display filter textbox loses focus during live capturing.<\/li>\n<li>crashes when saving pcaps, opening pcaps, and exporting specified packets.<\/li>\n<li>Dumpcap crashes during rpcap setup.<\/li>\n<li>Crash on closing SNMP capture file if snmp credentials are present. <\/li>\n<li>And see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wireshark.org\/docs\/relnotes\/wireshark-2.2.5.html\" target=\"_blank\">release note<\/a> for more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>How to Install Wireshark 2.2.5 via PPA:<\/h4>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~wireshark-dev\/+archive\/ubuntu\/stable\" target=\"_blank\">official stable PPA<\/a> has built the new release for Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and their derivatives.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> To add the PPA, open terminal from Unity Dash \/ App Launcher, or via Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut keys, and then run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wireshark-dev\/stable<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type in your password (no visual feedback due to security reason) when it asks and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wireshark-official-ppa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wireshark-official-ppa-600x94.jpg\" alt=\"wireshark-official-ppa\" width=\"600\" height=\"94\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wireshark-official-ppa-600x94.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wireshark-official-ppa-450x71.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wireshark-official-ppa.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> For those who have a previous release installed, launch <b>Software Updater<\/b> (or Update Manager) to upgrade it to the latest:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/upgrade-wireshark.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/upgrade-wireshark-450x343.jpg\" alt=\"upgrade wireshark \" width=\"450\" height=\"343\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/upgrade-wireshark-450x343.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/upgrade-wireshark-600x457.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/upgrade-wireshark.jpg 741w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or run the commands below in terminal to install \/ upgrade wireshark:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install wireshark<\/pre>\n<p><b>How to restore:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To restore to the stock version of Wireshark in Ubuntu main repositories, purge the PPA via ppa-purge tool:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:wireshark-dev\/stable<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most popular network protocol analyzer, Wireshark 2.2.5, was finally made into PPA repository more than a week after its release date. Wireshark 2.2.5 is mainly a bug-fix release. The changes include updated protocol support and the following bug-fixes: Infinite loop: RTMTP dissector, WSP dissector, STANAG 4607 file parser, NetScaler file parser, IAX2 dissector, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[584,583],"class_list":["post-6620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-network-traffic-analyzer","tag-wireshark"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}