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Run wireshark 2.2.2 on CentOS7

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Hi,

I downloaded and installed wireshark 2.2.2 on CentOS 7, however I do not know how to open the GUI for this wireshark. I also have the default wireshark 1.10.14 installed and everytime when trying to open, it only opens the older version. How do I open UI for wireshark 2.2.2 that is already installed? Also, how do I verify the wireshark 2.2.2 is installed successfully?

asked 02 Dec '16, 09:41

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Shah
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Presumably this is a version of Wireshark you built yourself as I don't think CentOS 7 has a Wireshark 2.2.1 rpm?

(02 Dec '16, 10:04) grahamb ♦

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Where did you install Wireshark 2.2.2 (I'm assuming you did a "make install")? I /think/ by default it goes into /usr/local/bin/.

Options:

  1. run /usr/local/bin/wireshark (assuming it installed there)
  2. (else) do (assuming you're in bash): type -a wireshark. That should list 2 Wireshark executables. Try both.

answered 02 Dec '16, 12:51

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I got the wireshark file from here:

www.wireshark.org/downloads/src

on typing whereis wireshark, i see the file is in path: usr/sbin/wireshark usr/share/wireshark /usr/share/man/man1/wireshark.1.gz

when i check the wireshark file - its the old version 1.10.14 I don't know where the new version is stored in.

(02 Dec '16, 12:56) Shah

Note that wireshark.org does not ship RPMs for CentOS 7. So what you downloaded was probably a source tarball. You can't run Wireshark from there--you need to first configure and compile it. Did you do that?

(02 Dec '16, 13:22) JeffMorriss ♦