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Wireshark looks like this, and it can be a little overwhelming at first. There’s also an official wireshark-dev PPA you can use to get more up-to-date Wireshark versions. On Mac, you can download & install it from their homepage, and on Debian-based distros you can install it with sudo apt install wireshark.

Wireshark is a graphical network packet analysis tool. Wireshark is a really powerful and complicated tool, but in practice I only know how to do a very small number of things with it, and those things are really useful! So in this blog post, I’ll explain the 5 main things I use Wireshark for, and hopefully you’ll have a slightly clearer idea of why it’s useful. In the following example, the KDE desktop environment provides the Wireshark from the start menu like below.Hello! I was using Wireshark to debug a networking problem today, and I realized I’ve never written a blog post about Wireshark! Wireshark is one of my very favourite networking tools, so let’s fix that 🙂

Just type the “wireshark” to the start menu. Wireshark can be opened in different ways from the Start Menu or command-line interface. As Kali Linux comes with a lot of tools included, you may have a hard time to find Wireshark in the main menu, here is how to start the application: Open the main menu. $ sudo usermod -aG wireshark $(whoami) Open Wireshark By using the following command the current user gets the required privileges to read network packets. If it is not loaded yet, run this command as root: modprobe usbmon. The current user needs to be added to the wireshark group to get the required privileges. The next two commands may need to be re-run after every reboot: To dump USB traffic on Linux, you need the usbmon kernel module. These actions require root or Administrator privileges where in order to use the Wireshark. Wireshark mainly reads the network interface and captures packets. $ sudo yum install wireshark Wireshark Permission Or the yum install command can be used like below.

The root privileges can be provided with the sudo command like below. We can install the wireshark with the following yum install or dnf install command.