
Ubuntu, Debian, Mint and other deb based distributions provide Wireshark from their official repositories. If we do not have required privileges to install application we can use portable Wireshark which do not needs installation.

Windows provides a different type of installers like 32 bit, 64 bit, portable. The latest version of Wireshark can be downloaded from the following link. Let’s install Windows:įor Windows operating system we need to download the wireshark installation file from the official web site. Wireshark is supported by a lot of platforms. Wireshark can also read already captured packets in different formats like cap , pcap etc. It also provides detailed information about a specific packet. Wireshark captures packets from a different type of interfaces and prints them as a floating list to the screen.

Wireshark is a popular network packet capture and analysis tool.
