Install Wireshark 2.2.0 in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

   Wireshark is the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer. It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development and education.

Wireshark 2.2.0 Changelog

• Upgrading to latest version uninstalls Microsoft Visual C++ redistributable.
• Extcap errors not reported back to UI.
• "Decode As" supports SSL (TLS) over TCP.
• Invalid coloring rules are now disabled instead of discarded. This will provide backward compatibility with a coloring rule change in Wireshark 2.2.
• Added -d option for Decode As support in Wireshark (mimics TShark functionality)
• The Qt UI, GTK+ UI, and TShark can now export packets as JSON. TShark can additionally export packets as Elasticsearch-compatible JSON.
• The Qt UI now supports the -j, -J, and -l flags. The -m flag is now deprecated.
• The Conversations and Endpoints dialogs are more responsive when viewing large numbers of items.
• The RTP player now allows up to 30 minutes of silence frames.
• Packet bytes can now be displayed as EBCDIC.
• The Qt UI loads captures faster on Windows.
• proto_tree_add_checksum was added as an API.
• The intelligent scroll bar now sits to the left of a normal scroll bar and provides a clickable map of nearby packets. 

 See release notes for complete changes

 Installation instructions:

     Run the following commands in Terminal to install :

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

   Just confirm YES if you want to. If you check on NO, you must run Wireshark with sudo. Later, if you want to change this, :

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure wireshark-common

Optional, uninstall the new release to downgrade it to the stock version of Wireshark in Ubuntu repository, run command:

$ sudo apt-get install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:wireshark-dev/stable