Building Wireshark from Source - Linux (Debian 7.6)

OS: Debian GNU/Linux 7.6 (wheezy)











Latest releases can be found here: https://www.wireshark.org/download.html

wget https://1.eu.dl.wireshark.org/src/wireshark-1.12.0.tar.bz2
tar xaf wireshark-1.12.0.tar.bz2
cd wireshark-1.12.0
#could be that you need to install libgtk-3-dev before compiling
sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev 
#to compile
./configure
make
#now run it
sudo ./wireshark