How Update Wireshark on Ubuntu Intrepid

Asked by Dick Bednar

Wireshark 1.0.5 was released Dec, 2009 and is in Ubuntu "Jaunty" repository. I am running Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10) because Jaunty is not available for update until 9.4. My guess is when update to Jaunty happens in April, it will recognize that Wireshark update is also available.

How do I modify software sources to have the software updater "see" Wireshark 1.0.5 and update now?

Obviously, I am ignorant of something pretty simple because it seems illogical for people to wait months to fix security flaws in software and also inefficient for package maintainers to update several repositories.

Thanks for your patience.

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nhasian (nhasian) said :
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wireshark is already in the ubuntu Universe repository. version 1.0.3 is in intrepid. I havent tested this but it will probably work:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

find the line:

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid universe
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid-updates universe

and change it to:

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty universe
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jaunty-updates universe

save and close. go to a terminal and type

sudo apt-get update

then type:

sudo apt-get install wireshark

this will install jaunty's wireshark. now go back and change the sources.list back from jaunty to intrepid. dont update any other packages.

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Bernhard (b.a.koenig) said :
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You could also go here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/wireshark

But it does not always work to upgrade to jaunty packages because they depend on different libraries. It shouldn't be a problem to try though: click the link at the bottom of that page and it should take you to the package manager.

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Dick Bednar (dick-bednar) said :
#3

Tried Bernhard's suggestion. Clicking on the Wireshark download link did fetch the package and open the package installer. However, it failed to install because a dependency could not be resolved "libasound2".

Instructions at the top of the web page suggested simply adding another repository for Jaunty universe.
I picked a nearby mirror site and added it as jaunty universe.

Voila! now have Wireshark 1.0.5

Pretty obvious (now) that nhasian's solution would have worked as well.

nhasian's solution included removing references to jaunty from Software Sources before doing further updates, lest my system get confused with incompatible packages.

THANKS to both nhasian and Bernhard for very clear suggestions.