
This tutorial will be helpful for beginners to download and install Wireshark 4.0.0 on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Linux Mint 21.
What is Wireshark?
Wireshark is a powerful packet inspection and analysis tool. It can be used to view and analyze packets on a network, both on a live network and on a capture file. This can be helpful in identifying issues with network traffic, troubleshooting problems, and investigating data theft or other incidents.
Once captured, packets can be filtered and sorted by protocol, source and destination, and more. Packets can also be exported to a capture file for further analysis.
Wireshark Features
- Read Live Data
- Live capture and Offline analysis
- Rich VOIP Analysis
- Powerful Display
- Supports multiple Operating systems
- Capture files compressed with Gzip and decompress on the fly.
Install Wireshark 4.0.0 On Ubuntu / Linux Mint
If you want to start using Wireshark on your Ubuntu machine, there are a few things you need to do first. In this blog post, we’ll show you how to install Wireshark on Ubuntu and get it up and running.
Wireshark can be installed on Ubuntu and Linux Mint systems via 2 methods
- Official PPA
- Via Flatpak
Method 1: Via Official PPA
Step 1: Add the Official PPA
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wireshark-dev/stable
Step 2: Install Wireshark
sudo apt install wireshark
During the installation, a popup will ask to allow a non-superuser to execute Wireshark. Just confirm YES if you want to.

If you check on NO, you need to run every time Wireshark with SUDO. Later if you want to change this by using the below command.
sudo dpkg-reconfigure wireshark-common
sudo usermod -aG wireshark $(whoami)
Method 2: Via Flatpak
Step 1: Install Flatpak on your system using the setup guide
Step 2: Install Wireshark
flatpak install flathub org.wireshark.Wireshark
Step 3: Run Wireshark
flatpak run org.wireshark.Wireshark

Uninstall Wireshark
If you have installed Wireshark using PPA run the below command to uninstall
apt remove wireshark
For the Flatpak method use the below command
flatpak uninstall org.wireshark.Wireshark
Conclusion
From this tutorial, you have learned how to download and install Wireshark 4.0.0 on Ubuntu 22.04, 20.04, and Linux Mint 21
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It does not install wireshark version 4.0 from the repository. Just bullshit again.
Please use the Flatpak installation method
gibberish – won’t install wireshark 4.0
Please use the Flatpak installation method