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how to Disable wireshark updates and downloads in help menu?

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Hi, Can you folks help me out how to grade out or remove check for updates and downloads in the help menu tab for wirshark.Thanks in Advance

asked 10 Feb '14, 22:43

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As per my answer to your very similar question to do this you will need to compile your own version of Wireshark, after modifying the source code to remove the menu entries.

Why do you want to do this, don't you want to be helpful to your users?

answered 11 Feb '14, 01:28

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Could you please give me some more inputs as i am not into coding. We need to deploy this application to users silently and need to suppress the updates and downloads as per client requirement.Thanks

(11 Feb '14, 02:21) pkumar

The source code, tools and techniques to build your own version of Wireshark are all freely available and extensively discussed in the Developers Guide.

As you'll be distributing Wireshark (commercially ??) you should also take note of the Wireshark licence (GPL v2 and GPL2 FAQ) and the Wireshark FAQ items 1.6 about costs and 1.9 about commercial use.

(11 Feb '14, 02:53) grahamb ♦