How To Install wireshark on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install wireshark in Fedora 36. wireshark is Network traffic analyzer

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wireshark on Fedora 36.

What is wireshark

Wireshark allows you to examine protocol data stored in files or as it is captured from wired or wireless (WiFi or Bluetooth) networks, USB devices, and many other sources. It supports dozens of protocol capture file formats and understands more than a thousand protocols. It has many powerful features including a rich display filter language and the ability to reassemble multiple protocol packets in order to, for example, view a complete TCP stream, save the contents of a file which was transferred over HTTP or CIFS, or play back an RTP audio stream.

We can use yum or dnf to install wireshark on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wireshark.

Install wireshark on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install wireshark using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install wireshark

Install wireshark on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install wireshark using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wireshark

How To Uninstall wireshark on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the wireshark package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove wireshark

wireshark Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/wireshark
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee/6be54ee6fb94d2ad370819dcb9004e601a18e4
/usr/lib/sysusers.d/wireshark.conf
/usr/share/applications/org.wireshark.Wireshark.desktop
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/org.wireshark.Wireshark.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/mimetypes/org.wireshark.Wireshark-mimetype.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/org.wireshark.Wireshark.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/mimetypes/org.wireshark.Wireshark-mimetype.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/org.wireshark.Wireshark.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/mimetypes/org.wireshark.Wireshark-mimetype.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/org.wireshark.Wireshark.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/mimetypes/org.wireshark.Wireshark-mimetype.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/org.wireshark.Wireshark.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/mimetypes/org.wireshark.Wireshark-mimetype.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/org.wireshark.Wireshark.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/mimetypes/org.wireshark.Wireshark-mimetype.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/org.wireshark.Wireshark.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/mimetypes/org.wireshark.Wireshark-mimetype.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/org.wireshark.Wireshark.svg
/usr/share/man/man1/wireshark.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/org.wireshark.Wireshark.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/mime/packages/org.wireshark.Wireshark.xml

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wireshark on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).