How to install Wireshark 2.0.4 released on Ubuntu

 Wireshark 2.0.4 recently released, is a free, open source packet analyzer, world's foremost network protocol analyzer. It lets you see what's happening on your network at a microscopic level. It is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions.

 Wireshark has a rich feature set which includes the following:

•     Deep inspection of hundreds of protocols, with more being added all the time
•     Live capture and offline analysis
•     Standard three-pane packet browser
•     Multi-platform: Runs on Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and many others
•     Captured network data can be browsed via a GUI, or via the TTY-mode TShark utility
•     The most powerful display filters in the industry
•     Rich VoIP analysis
•     Read/write many different capture file formats: tcpdump (libpcap), Pcap NG, Catapult DCT2000, Cisco Secure IDS iplog, Microsoft Network Monitor, Network General Sniffer® (compressed and uncompressed), Sniffer® Pro, and NetXray®, Network Instruments Observer, NetScreen snoop, Novell LANalyzer, RADCOM WAN/LAN Analyzer, Shomiti/Finisar Surveyor, Tektronix K12xx, Visual Networks Visual UpTime, WildPackets EtherPeek/TokenPeek/AiroPeek, and many others
•     Capture files compressed with gzip can be decompressed on the fly
•     Live data can be read from Ethernet, IEEE 802.11, PPP/HDLC, ATM, Bluetooth, USB, Token Ring, Frame Relay, FDDI, and others (depending on your platform)
•     Decryption support for many protocols, including IPsec, ISAKMP, Kerberos, SNMPv3, SSL/TLS, WEP, and WPA/WPA2
•     Coloring rules can be applied to the packet list for quick, intuitive analysis
•     Output can be exported to XML, PostScript®, CSV, or plain text

Installation instructions:

Open terminal and insert command line...

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wireshark-dev/stable $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install wireshark