How To Install wireshark-gnome.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wireshark-gnome.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is wireshark-gnome.x86_64

Contains wireshark for Gnome 3 and desktop integration file

We can use yum to install wireshark-gnome.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wireshark-gnome.x86_64.

Install wireshark-gnome.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install wireshark-gnome.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wireshark-gnome.x86_64

How To Uninstall wireshark-gnome.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the wireshark-gnome.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove wireshark-gnome.x86_64

wireshark-gnome.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/sbin/wireshark
/usr/share/applications/wireshark.desktop
/usr/share/icons/gnome/16x16/mimetypes/application-x-pcap.png
/usr/share/icons/gnome/256x256/mimetypes/application-x-pcap.png
/usr/share/icons/gnome/32x32/mimetypes/application-x-pcap.png
/usr/share/icons/gnome/48x48/mimetypes/application-x-pcap.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/wireshark.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/wireshark.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/wireshark.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/wireshark.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/wireshark.png
/usr/share/man/man1/wireshark.1.gz
/usr/share/mime/packages/wireshark.xml

References

• wireshark-gnome.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wireshark-gnome.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.