We will run the following commands on our Debian 11 machine to install Wireshark.

In case you don’t have Debian installed on your machine, we suggest you can take a look at our other article on How to install Debian 11 before proceeding with the article. Having looked at that vital piece of info, let us now turn our focus and look at the core part of the article that explains how to install Wireshark on Debian 11, and also look at how to get started with this packet analyzer that has proven to be useful for several functionalities including sniffing, network problems troubleshooting and a lot more. Exports some or all packets in several capture file formats.Imports packets from text files containing hex dumps of packet data.Uses a network interface to capture live packet data.Wireshark and other packet capture programs.Opens files containing packet data captured with tcpdump/WinDump.It captures live packet data from a network interface.

Wireshark is available for Unix and Windows.

Nevertheless, the dawn of Wireshark has enormously changed to the point that it is now available for free, open-source, and it has proven to be one of the best packet analyzers available in the market today. Sometime back, Wireshark and look-alike tools were either expensive, proprietary, or both.

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