how to install wireshark 2.9 on linuxmint 18.03

To install Wireshark 2.9 on Linux Mint 18.03

Wireshark is a free and open source packet analyzer. It is used for analysis, network troubleshooting, software, and communications protocol development, as well as monitor viewer network. It is so simple to install Wireshark 2.9 on Linux Mint 18.03 and tutorial covers the ground on the same process.

To install Wireshark 2.9

Before starting Wireshark installation we need to add the repository of Wireshark.

linuxhelp ~ # add-apt-repository ppa:dreibh/ppa
You are about to add the following PPA:
 This is Thomas Dreibholz' s software repository. It contains the following packages:
- rsplib - The Open Source implementation of Reliable Server Pooling (RSerPool)
URL: http://tdrwww.iem.uni-due.de/dreibholz/rserpool/
- sctplib/socketapi - An userland SCTP implementation
URL: http://www.sctp.de/sctp.html
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quite easy. See http://tdrwww.iem.uni-due.de/dreibholz/rserpool/ for more details on the RSPLIB project!
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~dreibh/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
Press Enter to continue or Ctrl+C to cancel

Executing: /tmp/tmp.xa1d5Kdk2X/gpg.1.sh --keyserver
hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80
--recv-keys
916C56E0
gpg: requesting key 916C56E0 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key 916C56E0: public key " Launchpad PPA for Thomas Dreibholz"  imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)

We can start to install the application after updating the system repository.

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get update 
Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Ign:2 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease                                                                
Get:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dreibh/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease [23.8 kB]               
Get:25 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/multiverse i386 Packages [15.3 kB]                                           
Get:26 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe i386 Packages [297 kB]                                            
Get:27 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe Translation-en [127 kB]     
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Get:28 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/multiverse amd64 Packages [3,208 B]                                        
Get:29 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/multiverse i386 Packages [3,376 B]                                         
Fetched 5,276 kB in 8s (619 kB/s)                                                                                                   
Reading package lists... Done

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get install wireshark
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libc-ares2 libnl-route-3-200 libqt5multimedia5 libsmi2ldbl libwireshark-data libwireshark0 libwiretap0 libwscodecs0 libwsutil0
  wireshark-common wireshark-qt
Suggested packages:
  snmp-mibs-downloader wireshark-doc
Recommended packages:
  libqt5multimedia5-plugins
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libc-ares2 libnl-route-3-200 libqt5multimedia5 libsmi2ldbl libwireshark-data libwireshark0 libwiretap0 libwscodecs0 libwsutil0
  wireshark wireshark-common wireshark-qt
0 upgraded, 12 newly installed, 0 to remove and 313 not upgraded.
Need to get 19.6 MB of archives.
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Setting up libwscodecs0:amd64 (2.9.0+git20180412090411~dcc88906-0ubuntu1~xenial1~ppa0) ...
Setting up libc-ares2:amd64 (1.10.0-3ubuntu0.2) ...
Setting up libwiretap0:amd64 (2.9.0+git20180412090411~dcc88906-0ubuntu1~xenial1~ppa0) ...
Setting up libwireshark0:amd64 (2.9.0+git20180412090411~dcc88906-0ubuntu1~xenial1~ppa0) ...
Setting up wireshark-common (2.9.0+git20180412090411~dcc88906-0ubuntu1~xenial1~ppa0) ...
Setting up wireshark-qt (2.9.0+git20180412090411~dcc88906-0ubuntu1~xenial1~ppa0) ...
Setting up wireshark (2.9.0+git20180412090411~dcc88906-0ubuntu1~xenial1~ppa0) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ...