How to Install Wireshark 2.4.3 on Ubuntu 17.10 via PPA

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

Wireshark 2.4.3 Changelog:
The following bugs have been fixed:

• The IWARP_MPA dissector could crash.
• The NetBIOS dissector could crash.
• The CIP Safety dissector could crash.
• "tshark -G ?" doesn’t provide expected help.
• File loading is very slow with TRANSUM dissector enabled.
• packet-knxnetip.c:936: bad bitmask ?.
• packet-q931.c:1306: bad compare ?.
• SSL Dissection bug.
• Wireshark crashes when exporting various files to .csv, txt and other ‘non-capture file’ formats.
• RLC reassembly doesn’t work for RLC over UDP heuristic dissector.
• HTTP Object export fails with long extension (possibly query string).
• 3GPP Civic Address not displayed in Packet Details.
• Wireshark prefers packet.dll in System32\\Npcap over the one in System32.
• PEEKREMOTE dissector does not decode 11ac MCS rates properly.
• Visual Studio Community Edition 2015 lacks tools named in developer guide.
• TCP: Malformed data with Riverbed Probe option.
• Wireshark Crash when trying to use Preferences | Advanced.
• Right click on SMB2 Message ID and then Apply as Column causes Runtime Error.
• Return [Enter] should apply change (Column title - Button Label toolbars).
• Wireshark crashes if "rip.display_routing_domain" is set to TRUE in preferences file.
• Entry point inflatePrime not found for androiddump.exe and randpktdump.exe.
• BGP: IPv6 NLRI is received with Add-path ID, then Wire shark is not able to decode the packet correctly.
• Wrong SSL decryption when using EXTENDED MASTER SECRET and Client certificate request (mutual authentication).
• Frame direction isn’t always set if it comes from the pcapng record header rather than the packet pseudo-header. 

See release notes for complete changes 


Installation instructions:

    We can add this PPA to Ubuntu Operating  Systems and install Wireshark 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