- [Instructor] So you're ready
to download and install Wireshark.
Head on over the wireshark.org where you'll see this screen.
You'll have some options.
Of course there's download and we'll go to that in a second,
but also learn where you can learn more about Wireshark
and go beyond where there's additional tools
that you can get with Riverbed technology.
I'll select Download and here you can
see the current stable release of Wireshark is 2.6.1.
Now that's important to note because you'll see that you'll
want to keep the most recent release updated
on your machine because they have bugs that the fix.
People submit bugs to the developers all the time
and they do their best to fix whatever is wrong at the time.
Now you can see first, this Stable Release and that's the
one we're going to choose and I've already selected
it to download, but you can also see Old Stable Release.
This is an older version
and then also there's Development Release.
Now of course we are in the stable release,
but you can also see there's the Windows installer
for 64-bit, also 32-bit,
but there's also for Mac OS 10.6 and later.
Now this is really significant and because of a great
improvement in Wireshark as it moved to GDK to QT,
there's now a native interface for OS 10.
Prior to this you had to use X11,
which is the X Windows system and now with this release
you just open it just like any other application
on any other operating system.
It's been a long time since you had to use X11,
in fact 1.12 was the final release
that required the use of X11.
Now you can see there's other options that we can take
a look at on the downloads page, and I'll go to that.
It looks a lot like what we just saw,
but now let's take a look a little bit further down.
Okay, so you can see the standard package and Windows
and Wireshark is available in the default packaging system,
and you can see that there's a lot of options here.
Arch Linux, Novell, Red Hat, and a lot of vendors are
incorporating Wireshark in their devices.
So, there's a lot of platforms that Wireshark
is available to install on.
So, I have the setup and we're going
to just say Next, and I Agree.
You might wanna read the license agreement,
and here's a choice where the follow components
are available for installation.
You might think about keeping all of those and if we just
open this out we'll see the plugins and extensions,
and these are kind of important
because this is how the decodes work.
The dissector plugins, and what makes Wireshark do what it
does in dissecting and being able to present the protocols.
You also might want to consider installing TShark.
TShark is a lightweight command line interface program when
you need to do a capture but you don't want
a big footprint because there's no graphical user interface,
TShark is a nice, lightweight program.
Once you're done then you can bring it up
into Wireshark for analysis.
But we TShark we have the same options;
we can put filters and we can capture it for length of time.
So, it's a good option to use.
I'll go to Next, and the creating of the shortcuts here,
I think we'll just use the Desktop icon and file extensions
I'll use associate trace file extensions to wireshark.
And here it says install WinPcap
and as you can see I already have it installed.
And you can also install USBPcap if you haven't already.
Now this'll run through the installation.
Now Wireshark may prompt a reboot if this is your very first
install and you don't already have WinPcap installed.
All right, the installation is complete.
So, next I'll just say Run Wireshark,
but we can also say Show News.
And here's a little text file making it very simple.
One of the things that you wanna take a look
at is if you haven't installed this in a while or you are
just getting an update, there are a number of bug fixes.
People can submit bugs and they do look
at those and they do try to fix those.
All right, so now we're ready to go as you can see.
We have our sparklines
and we're ready to initiate Wireshark.