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Wireshark is a program for capturing and analyzing network traffic.

Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer for Unix and Windows.

Wireshark is a network packet analyzer, known previously as Ethereal. It lets you examine the network traffic flowing into and out of your Windows or Unix machine. Network professionals use Wireshark to troubleshoot networking problems, but it is also an excellent way to learn exactly how the network protocols work.

Source: Wireshark Quick-Start Guide

Homepage: http://www.wireshark.org/

Ubuntu package: wireshark Install wireshark

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How to install Wireshark

I am new to Linux and have a need to install Wireshark 2.0.0 on VirtualBox's Xubuntu 14.04. I have already downloaded .tar.gz package and extracted it. Then I opened terminal in the wireshark folder and type /.configure with intention to follow it…
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I'm not able to use wireshark "couldn't run /usr/bin/dumpcap in child process"

This message appears: No interface can be used for capturing in this system with the current configuration. (couldn't run /usr/bin/dumpcap in child process: permission denied) Tell me how to avoid it.
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There are no interfaces on which a capture can be done

I'm using Ubuntu 13.04. Wireshark won't show me any logs, won't function at all. I'm connected to my WiFi, Belkin router.
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Wireshark is not able to capture on any of the interfaces

I just switched to Ubuntu from openSuse where I used wireshark with no problem. Now I receive the error that "You don't have permission to capture on that device" referring to my 802.11 wifi. I have root privileges but not running as root. I…
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Installing Wireshark

I am trying to install wireshark with help from this youtube video sudo apt-get install wireshark libcap2-bin sudo groupadd wireshark sudo usermod -a -G wireshark debbase But I faced a problem when I ran the command sudo usermod -a -G wireshark…
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How to install latest WireShark?

I see that the latest Wireshark has been release. I would like to have it since it has some features that I need. https://packages.qa.debian.org/w/wireshark.html Unfortunately, if I use sudo apt-get install wireshark the newest version I got only…
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Is there a way to make tshark not truncate lines?

I'm trying to inspect http conversation: tshark -r ~/1.pcap -R http -V | less But here and there I see these [truncated] things: Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8\r\n [truncated] Cookie: PHPSESSID=u0c1ucgkd0463aglsroah7sbj0;…
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Wireshark HTTP request methods for GET and POST on wlan0

I can't seem to get the right information using Wireshark. I'm capturing on my wireless network, and I want to be able to inspect packets coming from users on my network. After capturing, I apply this filter: http.request.method == "GET" ||…
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Error when running wireshark

I get the following error when running wireshark. sudo wireshark error: wireshark: symbol lookup error: wireshark: undefined symbol: wslua_plugins_get_descriptions versions: ubuntu: 22.04 wireshark: 3.6.2
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Disable file permision

I'm currently want to upload my file.pcap that I create from wireshark, but I cannot that upload that file to internet because file permision. How can I disable permision? so that there is no x and lock icon like this? Here's the file.
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Couldn't run /usr/bin/dumpcap in child process: Permission denied

When I start wireshark this is the message I get. Couldn't run /usr/bin/dumpcap in child process: Permission denied Error by extcap pipe: ** (process:4740): WARNING **: Option '--remote-filter' requires an argument ** (process:4740): WARNING **:…
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Wireshark doesn`t see http

I installed wireshark on ubuntu, run capture on "wlp2s0f0" and load some pages in browser. But when I enter filter http in wireshark, I don`t see anything. What I do wrong and how I can solve this problem?
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wireshark installing ubuntu14.0.4 error

I am trying to install by: $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/programs-ppa $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install wireshark $ sudo apt-get remove wireshark However, I got the below problem when running wireshark: wireshark: symbol lookup…
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How to rresolve the error: /var/cache/apt/archives/wireshark-common_1.11.3+svn54990-0ubuntu1~saucy1~ppa0_amd64.deb

I have an ubuntu 13.10 and try to install wireshark on it. But I keep on getting the following error. mininet@ubun_13_10:~/mininet$ sudo apt-get install wireshark Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state…
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Wireshark does not start

I installed Wireshark from the Ubuntu software center (running Ubuntu version 13.10) and got no error messages after. The problem is that Wireshark splash window closes halfway through the progress bar and then nothing more happens. I tried to…
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