Complete Guide to Wireshark Upgrade and Downgrade: Tips and Troubleshooting

WireShark Installation Command:

Upgrade to the new version of Wireshark

Add the official Wireshark key and proceed with the Wireshark upgrade.

Install Wireshark

Configure Wireshark

A setup interface will appear in the middle, select .

The new version of Wireshark is now installed.

Downgrading the old version of Wireshark

Why downgrade? Because my previous version was 3.1 and I found that it lacked the expression feature, and some protocol frames could not be parsed, couldn’t find the reason, so I had to downgrade.

Wireshark upgrade

After uninstalling and reinstalling, I found that the newly installed version was still the new version of Wireshark.

Then I remembered that I added the official PPA source during the upgrade, so in future installations, it will default to the updated version.

First, delete the PPA source

Find and delete the save file of the PPA source of the new version of Wireshark, I forgot the exact name, it is a file starting with Wireshark

Update apt-get

Remove Wireshark and related Wireshark-common files, otherwise, there will be a prompt of failure when installing the old version

Then you can install the old version of Wireshark