How To Install wireshark on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wireshark on Fedora 34.
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 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wireshark.
Install wireshark on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34
To uninstall only the wireshark package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove wireshark
wireshark Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/wireshark
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/50
/usr/lib/.build-id/50/c29e9a26ef5b56afa73dcdeb57c779682f24f8
/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
/usr/bin/wireshark
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4/69d1ca5bca34740dac1b12d3cc572829ac231a
/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 Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
