

In the terminal window, type the following command to start the Wireshark application. To do this, execute the following command, adding your required username after “wireshark” in the command. You must add a username to the Wireshark group so that this user can use Wireshark.

Select the “Yes” button to change the configuration settings to allow other users access to Wireshark. If you have selected “No” in the above scenario, then you can change this selection again by executing the following command, which will reconfigure the Wireshark permission settings. Step 4: (Optional) Reconfigure Permission Settings Press the “Yes” button to allow other users, or press the “No” button to restrict other users from using Wireshark. As Wireshark requires superuser/root privileges to operate, this option asks to enable or disable permissions for all every user on the system. When Wireshark installs on your system, you will be prompted by the following window. Now that Wireshark’s latest version has been added to the APT, you can download and install it with the following command. Step 1: Update APTįirst, as always, update and upgrade your APT through the following command. Follow the steps below to install Wireshark on Ubuntu 20.04.

The Wireshark utility is available on all major desktop platforms, i.e., Linux, Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD, MacOS, Solaris, and many more. Reads and write a wide variety of captured file formats.Results can be saved in CSV, XML, PostScript, and plain text documents.

