How do I install Wireshark in Red Hat Linux?

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At the Wireshark download page, am I supposed to download "Standard package" for Red Hat under "Third-Party Package"? Does the Red Hat version have a GUI?

score 22 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 03 '12 at 07:49

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You can use the yum command to install wireshark on RHEL

yum install wireshark

and

yum install wireshark-gnome

This is probably the best way to install the products as it will install the relevant dependencies at the same time.

answered Jul 03 '12 at 07:49

user9517

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... and +1 to you, as so many times before. :-) – Janne Pikkarainen Jul 03 '12 at 10:07
+1 for noting there are two packages needed for the full UI – pedorro Oct 22 '14 at 19:01

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 03 '12 at 09:46

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You could download the Sourcecode from http://wiresharkdownloads.riverbed.com/wireshark/src/wireshark-1.8.0.tar.bz2. Then you unzip the sourcecode

bunzip2 wireshark-1.8.0.tar.bz2

Then untar the file

tar -xvf wireshark-1.8.0

Then change directory into the wireshark-directory and do the usual steps for installing from source:

./configure
make
make install

or you can use the yum-way described in the comment above. Actually that might work better because there might be dependencies.

answered Jul 03 '12 at 09:46

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Aieee! Do not tell a Linux newbie to compile programs from source code. That's unnecessary almost 100% of the time, scares the newbies away and defeats the purpose of package managers. Anyway, the package managers & software repositories are one very big thing Linux/BSD excels at! All this said, I'll have to -1 you. – Janne Pikkarainen Jul 03 '12 at 10:06
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ok, thanks for the advice. you are absolutely right. – Cornelius Jul 03 '12 at 10:49
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I don't agree, especially with the down voting. Let the new user decide what is more appealing to him. Where would you be today if you were using just software repositories ? :) – golja Jul 03 '12 at 12:22
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This implies you are running `make` as root. Please don't do this! You can `./configure` & `make` unprivileged and then `sudo make install`. – Aaron Copley Jun 03 '13 at 18:52
I found this guide helpful: https://nullsec.us/wireshark-from-source-rhel-7/ – Paul Jun 21 '22 at 14:10

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 03 '12 at 09:54

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Just add this Fedora RHEL compatible repository (find it here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL ) with: rpm -Uvh "http://URL/" And then: made a classic Yum install as mentioned upper.

answered Jul 03 '12 at 09:54

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Wireshark isn't provided by EPEL, it is in the base repository. – Aaron Copley Jun 03 '13 at 18:54
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Not quite true, starting from DEVOS EPEL repos you've got access to wireshark 1.8 ;-) – Dr I Jun 04 '13 at 08:02
What is DEVOS EPEL? (A Google search was not productive. [This](http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/devos/) is all I found.) – Aaron Copley Jun 04 '13 at 15:03

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