Information about the package, wireshark-devel, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The wireshark-devel package is designed for, Development headers and libraries for wireshark.
Package Name:
wireshark-devel
Summary:
Development headers and libraries for wireshark
Description:
The wireshark-devel package contains the header files, developer documentation, and libraries required for development of wireshark scripts and plugins.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.8.10
Release:
25.el6
Size:
908 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPL+
Control the wireshark-devel package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install wireshark-devel
This command will install wireshark-devel on the server.
yum remove wireshark-devel
This command will un-install wireshark-devel on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove wireshark-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove wireshark-devel
This command will un-install wireshark-devel 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-devel when using the -y flag.
yum update wireshark-devel
This command will update wireshark-devel to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove wireshark-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update wireshark-devel
This command will update wireshark-devel 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-devel when using the -y flag.
yum info wireshark-devel
This command will show you core information about the wireshark-devel package.
yum deplist wireshark-devel
This command will show you the dependencies for wireshark-devel. 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-devel
This command will check if there is an update waiting on wireshark-devel. 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.