Install Wireshark 2.2.1 on Ubuntu 16.10

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

 
Wireshark 2.2.1 Changelog 

•    The Windows installers now ship with Qt 5.6. Previously they shipped with Qt 5.3
•    The Bluetooth L2CAP dissector could crash.
•    The NCP dissector could crash.
•     Flow Graph colored data arrows
•     Capture File Properties under Statistics Grayed Out after Stopping a Capture
•     Qt: Hidden columns displayed during live capture
•     Unable to save changes to coloring rules
•     Bad description for NBSS error code 0x81
•     Live capture from USBPcap fails immediately
•     Cannot decrypt EAP-TTLS traffic (not recognized as conversation)
•     Export packet dissections Option disabled after capturing traffic
•     Failure to open file named with Chinese or other multibyte characters
•     k12 text file format causes errors

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

 Install Wireshark 2.2.1 package if PPA is yet to be updated

$ wget https://1.na.dl.wireshark.org/src/wireshark-2.2.1.tar.bz2 $ tar -xvf wireshark-2.2.1.tar.bz2 $ cd wireshark* $ ./configure $ make $ sudo make install $ sudo ldconfig $ 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