How To Install wireshark on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wireshark on CentOS 8.
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 CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wireshark.
Install wireshark on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install wireshark using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install wireshark
Install wireshark on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
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 CentOS 8
To uninstall only the wireshark package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove wireshark
wireshark Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/wireshark
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb/3f0714c41f1966051735515665663016957762
/usr/share/appdata/wireshark.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/wireshark.desktop
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/wireshark.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/mimetypes/application-wireshark-doc.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/wireshark.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/mimetypes/application-wireshark-doc.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/wireshark.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/mimetypes/application-wireshark-doc.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/wireshark.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/mimetypes/application-wireshark-doc.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/wireshark.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/mimetypes/application-wireshark-doc.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/wireshark.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/mimetypes/application-wireshark-doc.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/wireshark.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/mimetypes/application-wireshark-doc.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/wireshark.svg
/usr/share/man/man1/wireshark.1.gz
/usr/share/mime/packages/wireshark.xml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wireshark on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.