How To Install wireshark on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wireshark
on CentOS 7.
What is wireshark
Wireshark is a network traffic analyzer for Unix-ish operating systems. This package lays base for libpcap, a packet capture and filtering library, contains command-line utilities, contains plugins and documentation for wireshark. A graphical user interface is packaged separately to GTK+ package. Wireshark is a network traffic analyzer for Unix-ish operating systems. This package lays base for libpcap, a packet capture and filtering library, contains command-line utilities, contains plugins and documentation for wireshark. A graphical user interface is packaged separately to GTK+ package.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install wireshark
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wireshark.
Install wireshark on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install wireshark
using yum
by running the following command:
Install wireshark on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install wireshark
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall wireshark on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the wireshark
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wireshark
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.