Why I can't find the bin file of wireshark package?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
  • wireshark

Issue

  • After install wireshark package, the bin file is not found.
  • Checking with "which" command as below, we can see that bin file don't exists.
# which wireshark
/usr/bin/which: no wireshark in (/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin)

Resolution

  • To solve this problem and get the bin file of the wireshark you should install the wireshark-gnome package in order to have path /usr/bin/wireshark created.

    # yum install wireshark-gnome

It is important to know that wireshark-gnome is only used to analyze in a graphical and friendly format the network traffic information collected by tcpdump. So, you can continue using tcpdump command to make the capture and then analyze it using wireshak:

# tcpdump
# wireshark

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