I know this is verbose but I know I jump for joy when I see someone has the exact same issue as me and walks through the entire solution and I rarely see people supply links to their follow up instructions. I will try to make this work again when all of my midterms are over and update. INSTANTANEOUS UPDATE: Right after I typed that I went to uninstall Wireshark using the Ubuntu software center and then it stayed on my machine as Wireshark 2.02 and now the capture option is green. When midterms are over I am going to keep working to make it work on Ubuntu because it will hang over my head if I can only make it work on Win7 but not Linux. pcap file (tcpdump -i eth0 -w test.pcap you may need to install tcpdump: sudo apt-get install tcpdump), but I could only see a snapshot whereas for my assignment I needed it constantly running to connect to the site to practice where the lab was from.

On Ubuntu I was able to capture packets (on the newest release) by making the. YOU MUST RUN WIRESHARK AS SUPERUSER! You do this by starting it from the terminal 'sudo wireshark' I am not sure why it wouldn't work with the latest version. My friend tried on her Win7 laptop before that and was having the exact same symptoms as me though for her it turned out she didn't select an interface. I was able to get it to work on my Win7 desktop with LAN using the legacy edition (2.07 'Old Stable Release'). If you are reading this because you are having the same issue I would recommend using the older version (2.0.7), and 100% making sure to run this as superuser using sudo, and if you are using Ubuntu to view packets by using a pcap file, and don't do this in a coffee shop because that breaks wiretapping laws - sniff packets from your phone.ĮDIT1: I apologize for the late edit. This is for a school assignment so I could go to school to complete it but that would still not resolve the issue so I don't want to give up on it and maybe someone else would have the same problem.

I've been trying different things and searching for this issue for about two hours but haven't been able to find anything. Http/no display filter made no difference Was running PIA VPN but disabled/exited it with no difference (did not uninstall)

Wireshark ubuntu 16.04lts