How To Install wireshark-common on Debian 10

Learn how to install wireshark-common on Debian 10 with this tutorial. wireshark-common is network traffic analyzer - common files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wireshark-common on Debian 10.

What is wireshark-common

wireshark-common is:

Wireshark is a network “sniffer” - a tool that captures and analyzes packets off the wire. Wireshark can decode too many protocols to list here.

This package provides files common to both wireshark (the GTK+ version) and tshark (the console version).

There are three methods to install wireshark-common on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install wireshark-common Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install wireshark-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install wireshark-common

Install wireshark-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install wireshark-common using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install wireshark-common

Install wireshark-common Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install wireshark-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install wireshark-common

How To Uninstall wireshark-common on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove wireshark-common

Uninstall wireshark-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall wireshark-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove wireshark-common

Remove wireshark-common Configurations and Data

To remove wireshark-common configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge wireshark-common

Remove wireshark-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove wireshark-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wireshark-common

Dependencies

wireshark-common have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wireshark-common package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.