How to Install Wireshark 2.2.6 on Ubuntu 16.04 & Higher

  Wireshark is the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer. It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development and education.

Wireshark 2.2.6 Changelog:

•     T30 FCF byte decoding masks DTC, CIG and NCS.
•     Wireshark gives decoding error during rnsap message dissection(SCCP reassembly).
•     Added IEEE 802.15.4-2003 AES-CCM security modes (packet-ieee802154).
•     Payload in 2 SCCP DT1 messages in the same frame isn’t (sub)dissected.
•     IEEE 802.15.4: an area of Payload IEs is dissected twice.
•     Qt UI: Wireshark crash when deleting IO graph string while it’s in editing mode.
•     Crash on exit due to an invalid frame data sequence state.
•     Access Violation using Lua dissector.
•     Some bytes ignored in every packet in NetScaler packet trace when vmnames are included in packet headers.
•     VOIP RTP stream Find Reverse button doesn’t work.
•     Lua dissector: ProtoField int&42; do not allow FT_HEX or FT_OCT, crash when set to FT_HEX_DEC or FT_DEC_HEX.
•     GIOP LocateRequest v1.0 is improperly indicated as "malformed".
•     Bug in ZigBee - Zone Status Change Notification.
•     Packet exception in packet-ua3g and incomplete strings in packet-noe.
•     Wrong BGP capability dissect.
•     Endpoint statistics column labels seem incorrect.
•     Strange automatic jump in packet details for a certain DNS response packet.
•     When a Lua enum or bool preference is changed via context menu, prefs_changed isn’t called with Qt Wireshark.
•     IO Graph selects wrong packet or displays "Packet number x isn’t displayed".
•     tshark’s -z endpoints,ip ignores optional filter.
•     SSL: Handshake type in Info column not always separated by comma.
•     libfuzzer: PEEKREMOTE dissector bug.
•     libfuzzer: packetBB dissector bug (packetbb.msg.addr.valuecustom).
•     libfuzzer: WSP dissector bug (wsp.header.x_wap_tod).
•     libfuzzer: MIH dissector bug.
•     libfuzzer: DNS dissector bug.
•     libfuzzer: WLCCP dissector bug. (Bug 13549)
•     libfuzzer: TAPA dissector bug. (Bug 13553)
•     libfuzzer: lapsat dissector bug. (Bug 13554)
•     libfuzzer: wassp dissector bug. (Bug 13555)
•     Illegal reassembly of GSM SMS packets. (Bug 13572)
•     SSH Dissector uses incorrect length for protocol field (ssh.protocol). (Bug 13574)
•     NBAP malformed packet for short Binding ID. (Bug 13577)
•     libfuzzer: WSP dissector bug (wsp.header.x_up_1.x_up_proxy_tod). (Bug 13579)
•     libfuzzer: asterix dissector bug (asterix.021_230_RA). (Bug 13580)
•     RTPproxy dissector adds multi lines to info column. (Bug 13582)  

 See release notes for complete changes

Installation instructions:

    We can add this PPA to Ubuntu Operating  Systems and install Darktable with few easy commands.

Open terminal and insert command line...

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wireshark-dev/stable $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install wireshark

     Optional, to remove wireshark, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove wireshark