Install Wireshark 2.0.0 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint Derivative System [PPA]

Wireshark 2.0.0 is released, Install on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems

Wireshark is an open source, sophisticated and highly acclaimed network analyzer software used by network professionals around the world for network traffic troubleshooting, analysis, software and protocol development.

Supports a wide range of capture file formats

With Wireshark, you can capture data "off the wire" from a live network connection, as well as to read from and write to popular capture file formats, including the tcpdump data outputted by the libpcap library, Pcap NG, Cisco Secure IDS iplog, Microsoft Network Monitor, Novell LANalyzer, and Network Instruments Observer.

What News on Wireshark 2.0.0 :

• An RTP player crash has been fixed
• Flow graph issues have been fixed
• A Follow Stream dialog crash has been fixed
• An extcap crash has been fixed
• A file merge crash has been fixed
• A handle leak crash has been fixed
• Several other crashes and usability issues have been fixed
• “File”→Merge no longer crashes on Windows
• Icons in the main toolbar obey magnification settings on Windows
• The Windows installer does a better job of detecting WinPcap
• The main window no longer appears off-screen on Windows
• The I/O Graph in the Gtk+ UI now supports an unlimited number of data points (up from 100k).
• TShark now resets its state when changing files in ring-buffer mode.
• Expert Info severities can now be configured.

How to Install Wireshark 2.0.0 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint Derivative System [PPA]

To Install / Update Wireshark 2.0.0 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, Deepin 2014, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0, Linux Lite 2.2 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dreibh/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install wireshark

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.