Wireshark 2.0.1 Released, Install on Ubuntu and Linux Mint [PPA]

Wireshark 2.0.1 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 2.0.1 :

• Zooming out (Ctrl+-) too far crashes Wireshark. (Bug 8854)
• IPv6 Mobility Header Link-Layer Address Mobility Option is parsed incorrectly. (Bug 10627)
• About → Plugins should be a scrollable. (Bug 11427)
• Profile change leaves prior profile residue. (Bug 11493)
• Wireshark crashes when using the VoIP player. (Bug 11596)
• Incorrect presentation of Ascend-Data-Filter (RADIUS attribute 242). (Bug 11630)
• Not possible to stop a capture with invalid filter. (Bug 11667)
• "No interface selected" when having a valid capture filter. (Bug 11671)
• Malformed packet with IPv6 mobility header. (Bug 11728)
• Wireshark crashes dissecting Profinet NRT (DCE-RPC) packet. (Bug 11730)
• All fields in the packet detail pane of a "new packet" window are expanded by default. (Bug 11731)
• Malformed packets with SET_CUR in the USBVIDEO (UVC) decoding. (Bug 11736)
• Display filters arranges columns incorrectly. (Bug 11737)
• Scrolling and navigating using the trackpad on Mac OS X could be much better. (Bug 11738)
• Lua Proto() does not validate arguments. (Bug 11739)
• Pointers to deallocated memory when redissecting. (Bug 11740)
• Suggestion for re-phrasing the TCP Window Full message. (Bug 11741)
• Can’t parse MPEG-2 Transport Streams generated by the Logik L26DIGB21 TV. (Bug 11749)
• Qt UI on Windows crashes when changing to next capture file. (Bug 11756)
• First displayed frame not updated when changing profile. (Bug 11757)
• LDAP decode shows invalid number of results for searchResEntry packets. (Bug 11761)
• Crash when escape to Follow TCP → Save. (Bug 11763)
• USBPcap prevents mouse and keyboard from working. (Bug 11766)
• Y-axis in RTP graph is in microseconds. (Bug 11784)
• "Delta time displayed" column in Wireshark doesn’t work well, but Wireshark-gtk does. (Bug 11786)
• UDP 12001 SNA Data no longer shown in EBCDIC. (Bug 11787)
• Wireshark Portable is not starting (no messages at all). (Bug 11800)
• IPv6 RPL Routing Header with length of 8 bytes still reads an address. (Bug 11803)
• g_utf8_validate assertion when reassembling GSM SMS messages encoded in UCS2. (Bug 11809)
• Calling plugin_if_goto_frame when there is no file loaded causes a Protection Exception. (Bug 11810)
• Qt UI SIGSEGV before main() in initializer for colors_. (Bug 11833)
• Unable to add a directory to "GeoIP Database Paths". (Bug 11842)
• C++ Run time error when filtering on Expert limit to display filter. (Bug 11848)
• Widening the window doesn’t correctly widen the rightmost column. (Bug 11849)
• SSL V2 Client Hello no longer dissected in Wireshark 2.0. (Bug 11851)
• PacketBB (RFC5444) dissector displays IPv4 addresses incorrectly. (Bug 11852)
• SMTP over port 587 shows identical content for fields "Username" and "Password" when not decoding base-64-encoded authentication information. (Bug 11853)
• Converting of EUI64 address to string does not take offset into account. (Bug 11856)
• CIP segment dissection causes PDML assertion/failure. (Bug 11863)
• In Import from Hex Dump, an attempt to enter the timestamp format manually crashes the application. (Bug 11873)
• Follow Stream directional selector not readable. (Bug 11887)
• Coloring rule custom colors not saved. (Bug 11888)
• Total number of streams not correct in Follow TCP Stream dialog. (Bug 11889)
• Command line switch -Y for display filter does not work. (Bug 11891)
• Creating Debian package doesn’t work. (Bug 11893)
• Visual C++ Runtime Library Error "The application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way." when you do not wait until Conversations is completely updated before applying "Limit to display filter". (Bug 11900)
• dpkg-buildpackage relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against symbol. (Bug 11901)
• Bits view in Packet Bytes pane is not persistent. (Bug 11903)
• ICMP Timestamp days, hours, minutes, seconds is incorrect. (Bug 11910)
• MPEG2TS NULL pkt: AFC: "Should be 0 for NULL packets" wrong. (Bug 11921)

How to Install Wireshark 2.0.1 on Ubuntu / Linux Mint Derivative System [PPA]

To Install / Update Wireshark 2.0.1 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.