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Wireshark install on Mavericks hangs at “Preparing for installation”

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I am trying to install the Wireshark 1.12.0 version on an Intel 64 bit OS on iMac running Mavericks. I ran into an install issue. I read somewhere that an XQuartz app might need to be installed, but this article referred to a lion, and not Mavericks. I've tried three times installing the Wireshark, even authorizing apps downloaded from anywhere in Security & Privacy pane, but it gets hung up at "Preparing for installation" and it goes on to an unreasonable timing of 15 minutes plus when I finally force quit. I would like to know if anyone has had this issue, and how were you able to correct it?

asked 07 Aug '14, 08:48

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converted 07 Aug '14, 13:54

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This was originally posted as an "answer" to the question where I moved it to a comment. I think this question is now a dupe of http://ask.wireshark.org/questions/35304/imac-wireshark-installation-gets-hung-up-cannot-install

(07 Aug '14, 14:41) grahamb ♦