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wireshark


Information about the package, wireshark, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The wireshark package is designed for, Network traffic analyzer.


Package Name:

wireshark

Summary:

Network traffic analyzer

Description:

Wireshark is a network traffic analyzer for Unix-ish operating systems. This package lays base for libpcap, a packet capture and filtering library, contains command-line utilities, contains plugins and documentation for wireshark. A graphical user interface is packaged separately to GTK+ package.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

1.8.10

Release:

25.el6

Size:

11 M

Repository:

base

From Repository:

Licence:

GPL+



Handy Yum Commands for wireshark


Control the wireshark package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install wireshark

This command will install wireshark on the server.

yum remove wireshark

This command will un-install wireshark on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove wireshark, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove wireshark

This command will un-install wireshark on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove wireshark when using the -y flag.

yum update wireshark

This command will update wireshark to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove wireshark, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update wireshark

This command will update wireshark to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove wireshark when using the -y flag.

yum info wireshark

This command will show you core information about the wireshark package.

yum deplist wireshark

This command will show you the dependencies for wireshark. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update wireshark

This command will check if there is an update waiting on wireshark. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.