How to Install Wireshark 2.2.3 on Ubuntu 16.10, 16.04

  Wireshark is the world’s most popular network protocol analyzer. It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development and education.

Wireshark 2.2.3 Changelog:

•     Arbitrary file deletion on Windows.
•     Saving all exported objects (SMB/SMB2) results in out of physical memory.
•     Export HTTP Objects - Single file shows as multiple files in 2.0.2.
•     Follow Stream and graph buttons remain greyed out in conversation window.
•     Dicom list of tags in element of VR=AT not properly decoded.
•     Malformed Packet: BGP Update (withdraw) message.
•     Install fail on macOS Sierra (error PKInstallErrorDomain Code=112).
•     GTP: "Create PDP Context response" message shows back-off timer as malformed when included in the response.
•     ICMP dissector fails to properly detect timestamps.
•     RLC misdissection.
•     Text2pcap on Windows produces corrupt output when writing the capture file to the standard output.
•     HTML escaping of quotes in error message.
•     TShark doesn’t respect protocols.display_hidden_proto_items setting.
•     RPC/RDMA dissector should exit when frame is not RPC-over-RDMA.
•     Some RPC-over-RDMA frames are not recognized as RPC-over-RDMA.
•     RPC-over-RDMA frames with chunk lists are "Malformed".
•     TShark fails to pass RPC-over-RDMA frames to RPC subdissector.
•     Adding a DOF DPS Identity Secret, session Key, or Mode Template causes Wireshark to crash.
•     Wireshark shows "MS Video Source Request" in a RTCP packet as "Malformed".

See release notes for complete changes

Installation instructions:

    We can add this PPA to Ubuntu Operating  Systems and install Wireshark with few easy commands.

Open terminal and insert command line...

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wireshark-dev/stable $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install wireshark

     Optional, uninstall the new release to downgrade it to the stock version of Wireshark in Ubuntu repository, run command:

$ sudo apt-get install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:wireshark-dev/stable