Wireshark is a powerful and popular network protocol analyzer which is used for network troubleshooting, analysis, and communication protocol development. In this tutorial, we'll learn how to install Wireshark on OpenSUSE Latest.
Before beginning with the installation, make sure that:
Follow the steps below to install Wireshark on OpenSUSE Latest.
Before installing any package, it is always a good practice to update the system to the latest version. To do so, run the following command:
sudo zypper update
By default, the OpenSUSE repository does not contain the Wireshark package. Therefore, we need to add Wireshark repository to our system.
To add the Wireshark repository, use the following command:
sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/utilities/openSUSE_Leap_15.X/network:utilities.repo
Note: Replace "15.X" with your actual version of OpenSUSE.
Next, we need to import the Wireshark repository key to verify the authenticity of the package.
To import the repository key, use the following command:
sudo zypper --gpg-auto-import-keys refresh network:utilities
We are now ready to install Wireshark. To do so, run the following command:
sudo zypper install wireshark
Once the installation is complete, you can launch Wireshark by typing the following command in the terminal:
wireshark
In this tutorial, we learned how to install Wireshark on OpenSUSE Latest. Now you can use Wireshark to analyze and troubleshoot your network protocols.
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