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Starting Wireshark on Ubuntu shows only Capture / o Cisco remote capture etc.

asked 2025-09-20 00:38:58 +0000

Carey gravatar image

updated 2025-09-20 07:40:03 +0000

Guy Harris gravatar image

No Open menu, 7 radio buttons none can be un-selected, none of them in the normal Capture list e.g. Ethernet, MozillaVPN,Adapter for loopback traffic capture, [selected] Local Area Connection* 10 and so on. How can I get the options I see in Windows 10 to show in Ubuntu? I just updated it to latest version. Maybe that did it?

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Please update the question with output of wireshark -v.

Chuckc gravatar imageChuckc ( 2025-09-20 02:16:01 +0000 )edit
root@<machine>/home/<user># wireshark -v
Wireshark 4.2.2 (Git v4.2.2 packaged as 4.2.2-1.1build3).

Copyright 1998-2024 Gerald Combs <[email protected]> and contributors.
Licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version 2 or later).
This is free software; see the file named COPYING in the distribution. There is
NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Compiled (64-bit) using GCC 13.2.0, with GLib 2.80.0, with Qt 6.4.2, with
libpcap, with POSIX capabilities (Linux), with libnl 3, with zlib 1.3, with
PCRE2, with Lua 5.2.4, with GnuTLS 3.8.3 and PKCS #11 support, with Gcrypt
1.10.3, with Kerberos (MIT), with MaxMind, with nghttp2 1.59.0, with nghttp3
0.8.0, with brotli, with LZ4, with Zstandard, with Snappy, with libxml2 2.9.14,
with libsmi ...
(more)
Carey gravatar imageCarey ( 2025-09-20 14:38:03 +0000 )edit

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answered 2025-09-20 10:05:45 +0000

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To set up Wireshark on Ubuntu, update your package list with sudo apt update, then install Wireshark using sudo apt install wireshark. During the installation, select "Yes" when prompted about non-superusers capturing packets. After installation, run sudo dpkg-reconfigure wireshark-common, select "Yes" again to allow non-superusers to capture packets, and add your user to the wireshark group with sudo usermod -a -G wireshark $USER.

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I did sudo apt remove wireshark then sudo apt install wireshark but no options such as non-superusers capturing packets were offered. However after your comment I ran it as root and the problem went away. But even without install option, sudo dpkg-reconfigure wireshark-common did offer non-superuser option; when I answered "Yes", and now non-superusers also get the good options. Thank you so much, Anders.

Carey gravatar imageCarey ( 2025-09-20 14:54:40 +0000 )edit

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