How to Install Wireshark 2.2.2 on Ubuntu 16.10

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

Wireshark 2.2.2 Changelog:

• TCP: nextseq incorrect if TCP_MAX_UNACKED_SEGMENTS exceeded & FIN true.
• SMPP schedule_delivery_time displayed wrong in Wireshark 2.1.0.
• Upgrading to latest version uninstalls Microsoft Visual C++ redistributable.
• dmg for OS X does not install man pages.
• Fails to compile against Heimdal 1.5.3.
• TCP: Next sequence number off by one when sending payload in SYN packet (e.g. TFO).
• Follow TCP Stream shows duplicate stream data.
• Dissection engine falsely asserts that EIGRP packet’s checksum is incorrect.
• IEEE 802.15.4 frames erroneously handed over to ZigBee dissector.
• Capture Filter Bookmark Inactive in Capture Options page.
• CLNP dissector does not parse ER NPDU properly.SNMP trap bindings for NON scalar OIDs.
• BGP LS Link Protection Type TLV (1093) decoding.
• Application crash sorting column for tcp.window_size_scalefactor up and down.
• ZigBee Green Power add key during execution.
• Malformed AMPQ packets for session.expected and session.confirmed fields.
• Wireshark 2.2.1 crashes when attempting to merge pcap files.
• [IS-637A] SMS - Teleservice layer parameter -→ IA5 encoded text is not correctly displayed.
• Failure to dissect USB Audio feature unit descriptors missing the iFeature field.
• MSISDN not populated/decoded in JSON GTP-C decoding.

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 2.2.2 package if PPA is yet to be updated

$ wget https://1.na.dl.wireshark.org/src/wireshark-2.2.2.tar.bz2 $ tar -xvf wireshark-2.2.2.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