You can now install Wireshark onto a PortableApps enabled device that will allow you to run Wireshark on any Windows XP & 2000 machine that you plug the device into. There is no need to run the normal Wireshark installation package, Wireshark will be ready to run as soon as the machine recognises the device. Wireshark is software that 'understands' the structure of different networking protocols. Thus, it is able to display the encapsulation and the fields along with their meanings of different packets specified by different networking protocols.
Windows installer names contain the platform and version. For example,Wireshark-win64-3.5.0.exe installs Wireshark 3.5.0for 64-bit Windows. The Wireshark installer includes Npcap which is requiredfor packet capture.
Simply download the Wireshark installer from https://www.wireshark.org/download.html and execute it.Official packages are signed by the Wireshark Foundation, Inc..You can choose to install several optional components and select the location of the installed package.The default settings are recommended for most users.
On the Choose Components page of the installer you can select from the following:
- Wireshark - The network protocol analyzer that we all know and mostly love.
- TShark - A command-line network protocol analyzer. If you haven’t tried ityou should.
- Plugins & Extensions - Extras for the Wireshark and TShark dissection engines
- Dissector Plugins - Plugins with some extended dissections.
- Tree Statistics Plugins - Extended statistics.
- Mate - Meta Analysis and Tracing Engine - User configurable extension(s)of the display filter engine, see Chapter 12, MATE for details.
- SNMP MIBs - SNMP MIBs for a more detailed SNMP dissection.
- Tools - Additional command line tools to work with capture files
- Editcap - Reads a capture file and writes some or all of the packets intoanother capture file.
- Text2Pcap - Reads in an ASCII hex dump and writes the data into apcap capture file.
- Reordercap - Reorders a capture file by timestamp.
- Mergecap - Combines multiple saved capture files into a single output file.
- Capinfos - Provides information on capture files.
- Rawshark - Raw packet filter.
- User’s Guide - Local installation of the User’s Guide. The Help buttons onmost dialogs will require an internet connection to show help pages if theUser’s Guide is not installed locally.
- Start Menu Shortcuts - Add some start menu shortcuts.
- Desktop Icon - Add a Wireshark icon to the desktop.
- Quick Launch Icon - add a Wireshark icon to the Explorer quick launch toolbar.
- Associate file extensions to Wireshark - Associate standard network trace files to Wireshark.
By default Wireshark installs into
%ProgramFiles%Wireshark
on 32-bit Windowsand %ProgramFiles64%Wireshark
on 64-bit Windows. This expands to C:ProgramFilesWireshark
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The Wireshark installer contains the latest Npcap installer.
If you don’t have Npcap installed you won’t be able to capture live networktraffic but you will still be able to open saved capture files. By default thelatest version of Npcap will be installed. If you don’t wish to do this or ifyou wish to reinstall Npcap you can check the Install Npcap box as needed.
For more information about Npcap see https://nmap.org/npcap/ andhttps://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/wikis/Npcap.
For special cases, there are some command line parameters available:
/S
runs the installer or uninstaller silently with default values. Thesilent installer will not install Npcap./desktopicon
installation of the desktop icon,=yes
- force installation,=no
- don’t install, otherwise use default settings. This option can beuseful for a silent installer./quicklaunchicon
installation of the quick launch icon,=yes
- forceinstallation,=no
- don’t install, otherwise use default settings./D
sets the default installation directory ($INSTDIR), overriding InstallDirand InstallDirRegKey. It must be the last parameter used in the command lineand must not contain any quotes even if the path contains spaces./NCRC
disables the CRC check. We recommend against using this flag./EXTRACOMPONENTS
comma separated list of optional components to install.The following extcap binaries are supported.androiddump
- Provide interfaces to capture from Android devicesciscodump
- Provide interfaces to capture from a remote Cisco router through SSHrandpktdump
- Provide an interface to generate random captures using randpktsshdump
- Provide interfaces to capture from a remote host through SSH using a remote capture binaryudpdump
- Provide an UDP receiver that gets packets from network devices
Example:
Running the installer without any parameters shows the normal interactive installer.
As mentioned above, the Wireshark installer also installs Npcap.If you prefer to install Npcap manually or want to use a different version than theone included in the Wireshark installer, you can download Npcap fromthe main Npcap site at https://nmap.org/npcap/.
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The official Wireshark Windows package will check for new versions and notifyyou when they are available. If you have the Check for updates preferencedisabled or if you run Wireshark in an isolated environment you should subscribeto the wireshark-announce mailing list to be notified of new versions.See Section 1.6.5, “Mailing Lists” for details on subscribing to this list.
New versions of Wireshark are usually released every four to six weeks. UpdatingWireshark is done the same way as installing it. Simply download and start theinstaller exe. A reboot is usually not required and all your personal settingsremain unchanged.
Wireshark updates may also include a new version of Npcap.Manual Npcap updates instructions can be found on the Npcap website at https://nmap.org/npcap/. You may have to reboot your machine after installinga new Npcap version.
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You can uninstall Wireshark using the Programs and Features control panel.Select the “Wireshark” entry to start the uninstallation procedure.
The Wireshark uninstaller provides several options for removal. The default isto remove the core components but keep your personal settings and Npcap.Npcap is kept in case other programs need it.
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You can uninstall Npcap independently of Wireshark using the Npcap entryin the Programs and Features control panel. Remember that if you uninstallNpcap you won’t be able to capture anything with Wireshark.