2.5. Building Wireshark from source under UNIX

Wireshark 2.1

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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 Developer’s Guide at https://www.wireshark.org/docs/ for more information.

Use the following general steps to build Wireshark from source under UNIX or Linux:

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
```
Change directory to the Wireshark source directory.
```
$ cd wireshark-2.4.5
```
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”.
Build the sources.
```
$ make
```
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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