Windows chocolatey Wireshark install: ensure you install nmap too, so you have a pcap interface for capturing!
Posted by jpluimers on 2021/08/19
Wireshark is indispensable when doing network communications development or DevOps.
This is my choco-install-network-tools.bat batch file to install Wireshark and the pcap dependency which nmap provides:
choco install --yes nmap :: wireshark requires a pcap for capturing; nmap comes with npcap which fulfills this dependency :: see: :: - https://chocolatey.org/packages/wireshark :: - https://chocolatey.org/packages/win10pcap :: - https://chocolatey.org/packages/WinPcap :: - https://chocolatey.org/packages/nmap choco install --yes wireshark
Yes, I know: Windows Subsystem for Linux could have an easier installation, but the above:
- works on non-Windows-10 as well
- saves me from a Wireshark UI inside Windows Subsystem for Linux by fiddling with the X Window System (yes, it can be done: [WayBack] Hands-On with WSL: Running Graphical Apps — Virtualization Review)
See:
- [WayBack] Chocolatey Software | Wireshark 3.0.5
- [WayBack] Chocolatey Software | WinPcap 4.1.3.20161116 (development has stopped, plus it has a dependency on [WayBack] autohotkey.portable, which might interfere with [WayBack] autohotkey.install or [WayBack] autohotkey)
- [WayBack] Chocolatey Software | win10pcap (Install) 10.2.5002
- [WayBack] Chocolatey Software | Nmap 7.80
- [WayBack] Chocolatey Software | Npcap 0.86
–jeroen
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