{"id":7448,"date":"2018-01-20T14:31:17","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T14:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7448"},"modified":"2018-01-20T14:31:17","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T14:31:17","slug":"install-wireshark-2-4-4-in-ubuntu-17-10-16-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/01\/install-wireshark-2-4-4-in-ubuntu-17-10-16-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Wireshark 2.4.4 in Ubuntu 17.10, 16.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wireshark network analyzer 2.4.4 was released a week ago. Now it&#8217;s finally available in PPA repository for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.10.<\/p>\n<p>Wireshark 2.4.4 is a small release with mainly bug-fixes and updated protocol support. Bug-fixes in the release include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Multiple dissectors could crash.<\/li>\n<li>The IxVeriWave file parser could crash.<\/li>\n<li>The WCP dissector could crash.<\/li>\n<li>Disabled the Linux kernel&#8217;s BPF JIT compiler due to security vulnerable.<\/li>\n<li>Some keyboard shortcut mix-up has been resolved<\/li>\n<li>Remote interfaces are not saved.<\/li>\n<li>Wireshark &#038; Tshark 2.4.2 core dumps with segmentation fault.<\/li>\n<li>SSH remote capture promiscuous mode.<\/li>\n<li>For more, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wireshark.org\/docs\/relnotes\/wireshark-2.4.4.html\" target=\"_blank\">release note<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>How to Install Wireshark 2.4.3 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>Wireshark has a stable PPA with the latest packages for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, and Ubuntu 17.10.<\/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\r\n\r\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>Wireshark network analyzer 2.4.4 was released a week ago. Now it&#8217;s finally available in PPA repository for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.10. Wireshark 2.4.4 is a small release with mainly bug-fixes and updated protocol support. Bug-fixes in the release include: Multiple dissectors could crash. The IxVeriWave file parser could crash. The WCP dissector could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[584,583],"class_list":["post-7448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-network-traffic-analyzer","tag-wireshark"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7448","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=7448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}