{"id":7955,"date":"2018-07-17T13:10:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T13:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7955"},"modified":"2018-07-17T13:10:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T13:10:44","slug":"wireshark-2-6-available-install-ubuntu-18-04-ppa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/07\/wireshark-2-6-available-install-ubuntu-18-04-ppa\/","title":{"rendered":"Wireshark 2.6 Available to Install in Ubuntu 18.04, 16.04 via PPA"},"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=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5449\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wireshark network packet analyzer 2.6 stable series now is available to install in all current Ubuntu releases via the <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~wireshark-dev\/+archive\/ubuntu\/stable\" target=\"_blank\">stable PPA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wireshark.org\/news\/20180424.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wireshark 2.6<\/a> was released 3 months ago in Apirl. It mainly features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support for HTTP Request sequences<\/li>\n<li>Support for MaxMind DB files. Support for GeoIP and GeoLite Legacy databases has been removed.<\/li>\n<li>The Windows packages are now built using Microsoft Visual Studio 2017.<\/li>\n<li>The IP map feature (the \u201cMap\u201d button in the \u201cEndpoints\u201d dialog) has been removed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/wireshark-261.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/wireshark-261-600x388.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"388\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/wireshark-261-600x388.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/wireshark-261-450x291.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/wireshark-261-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/wireshark-261.jpg 1104w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Install Wireshark 2.6 via PPA in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>So far the PPA contains Wireshark 2.6.1 for Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 17.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 14.04.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal by either pressing <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> or searching for &#8216;terminal&#8217; from app launcher. When it opens, run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wireshark-dev\/stable<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type your user password (no asterisks feedback due to security reason) when it prompts and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/wireshark-ppa-bionic-600x88.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"88\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7956\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/wireshark-ppa-bionic-600x88.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/wireshark-ppa-bionic-450x66.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/wireshark-ppa-bionic.jpg 744w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> If you&#8217;ve the previous Wireshark 2.4.x installed on your system, <b>remove<\/b> it first via command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get remove --autoremove wireshark<\/pre>\n<p><b>3.<\/b> Finally run following commands one by one in terminal to install Wireshark 2.6:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install wireshark<\/pre>\n<h4>Uninstall:<\/h4>\n<p>To remove the software, open terminal and run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get remove --autoremove wireshark wireshark-*<\/pre>\n<p>And remove the PPA by launching <b>Software &#038; Updates -> Other Software<\/b> tab.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/remove-wireshark-ppa-450x301.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"301\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7957\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/remove-wireshark-ppa-450x301.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/remove-wireshark-ppa-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/remove-wireshark-ppa.jpg 733w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wireshark network packet analyzer 2.6 stable series now is available to install in all current Ubuntu releases via the stable PPA. Wireshark 2.6 was released 3 months ago in Apirl. It mainly features: Support for HTTP Request sequences Support for MaxMind DB files. Support for GeoIP and GeoLite Legacy databases has been removed. The Windows [&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-7955","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\/7955","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=7955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}