Wireshark installation on Debian

A really quick guide on installing Wireshark on Debian.

The installation itself is pretty straight forward, however there is a little bit of reconfig work and user administration to get going for non-root users.

Install Wireshark from apt

$ sudo apt-get install wireshark

Reconfigure the wireshark-common package making sure to answer yes to the question asked.

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure wireshark-common 

Add any user to the wireshark group that needs to be able to capture data off the network interfaces.

$ sudo usermod -a -G wireshark $USER

Remember, if you added yourself to this group; you’ll need to logout and log back in for the group changes to take effect.