Install Latest Wireshark on Ubuntu 18.04 'Bionic Beaver' Flavour
How to Install Latest Wireshark on Ubuntu 18.04 'Bionic Beaver' Flavour ?
Adding this PPA to your system
You can update your system with unsupported packages from this untrusted PPA by adding ppa:wireshark-dev/stable to your system's Software Sources :
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wireshark-dev/stable
sudo apt-get update
Install wireshark :
There is a series of steps to follow that implement Privilege Separation, effectively allowing the Wireshark GUI to run as a normal user while dumpcap (which is collecting the packets from your interfaces) runs with the elevated privileges required to sniff. First, try:
sudo apt-get install wireshark
sudo dpkg-reconfigure wireshark-commonAnd select Yes when prompted as to whether non-superusers should be able to capture packets.
In the event that this doesn’t do the trick, issue the following series of commands, which will configure the dumpcap executable to run. Be sure to include YOUR_USER_NAME where indicated below:
sudo chgrp YOUR_USER_NAME /usr/bin/dumpcap
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/dumpcap
sudo setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin+eip /usr/bin/dumpcap
After setting permision is finished, run wireshark and choose interface card :