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Building Wireshark from source under UNIX

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2.5.Building Wireshark from source under UNIX

Building Wireshark requires the proper build environment including a compiler and many
supporting libraries. See the Developers Guide at https://www.wireshark.org/docs/ for more
information.
Use the following general steps to build Wireshark from source under UNIX or Linux:
1. Unpack the source from its compressed tar file. If you are using Linux or your version of
UNIX uses GNU tar you can use the following command:
$ tar xaf wireshark-2.4.5.tar.xz

In other cases you will have to use the following commands:

$ xz -d wireshark-2.4.5.tar.xz
$ tar xf wireshark-2.4.5.tar

2. Change directory to the Wireshark source directory.

$ cd wireshark-2.4.5

3. Configure your source so it will build correctly for your version of UNIX. You can do this
with the following command:
$ ./configure

If this step fails you will have to rectify the problems and rerun configure. Troubleshooting
hints are provided in Section 2.7, Troubleshooting during the install on Unix.
4. Build the sources.
$ make

5. Install the software in its final destination.

$ make install

Once you have installed Wireshark with make install above, you should be able to run it by
entering wireshark.

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