How To Install wireshark on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wireshark on AlmaLinux 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 AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wireshark.
Install wireshark on AlmaLinux 8 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 AlmaLinux 8 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 AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the wireshark package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove wireshark
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wireshark on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.
