Installing Wireshark on Ubuntu Linux
Another aide-memoir:
daren@Shimla:~$ sudo apt-get install wireshark
[sudo] password for daren:
Reading package lists… Done
[snip]
After this operation, 55.7 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe libsmi2ldbl i386 0.4.8+dfsg2-8ubuntu2 [95.0 kB]
[snip]
Setting up wireshark (1.10.6-1) …
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6) …
ADD WIRESHARK GROUP:
daren@Shimla:~$ sudo groupadd wireshark
ADD USER TO GROUP:
daren@Shimla:~$ sudo usermod -a -G wireshark daren
daren@Shimla:~$ sudo chgrp wireshark /usr/bin/dumpcap
daren@Shimla:~$ sudo chmod 750 /usr/bin/dumpcap
daren@Shimla:~$ sudo setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin=eip /usr/bin/dumpcap
daren@Shimla:~$ sudo getcap /usr/bin/dumpcap
/usr/bin/dumpcap = cap_net_admin,cap_net_raw+eip
ANOTHER METHOD:
daren@Shimla:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure wireshark-common
Executing “addgroup –quiet –system wireshark” failed.
Most probably the wireshark group exists, but is not a system group.
Please delete the existing group or re-create it as a system group and try configuring wireshark-common again.
oops!
daren@Shimla:~$ sudo groupdel wireshark
[sudo] password for daren:
daren@Shimla:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure wireshark-common
daren@Shimla:~$