How to Install and Uninstall wireshark-qt Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: April 28,2024

You can also install and uninstall the wireshark-qt on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

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1. Install "wireshark-qt" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install wireshark-qt on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "wireshark-qt" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall wireshark-qt on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the wireshark-qt package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: wireshark-qt
Source: wireshark
Version: 4.0.11-1~deb12u1
Installed-Size: 9377
Maintainer: Balint Reczey
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: wireshark (<< 2.0.0~), wireshark-gtk (<< 3.0.0~)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libgcrypt20 (>= 1.10.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.67.3), libminizip1 (>= 1.1), libnl-3-200 (>= 3.2.21), libnl-genl-3-200 (>= 3.2.7), libnl-route-3-200 (>= 3.2.7), libpcap0.8 (>= 1.5.1), libpcre2-8-0 (>= 10.22), libqt5core5a (>= 5.15.1), libqt5gui5 (>= 5.14.1) | libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.14.1), libqt5multimedia5 (>= 5.6.0~beta), libqt5printsupport5 (>= 5.2.0), libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.15.1), libspeexdsp1 (>= 1.2.1), libstdc++6 (>= 11), libwireshark16 (>= 4.0.0), libwiretap13 (>= 3.5.1), libwsutil14 (>= 3.7.2), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), wireshark-common (= 4.0.11-1~deb12u1), libqt5svg5
Recommends: libqt5multimedia5-plugins
Breaks: wireshark (<< 2.0.0~), wireshark-gtk (<< 3.0.0~)
Description: network traffic analyzer - Qt version
Description-md5: 4aa78d5ff5497c82e96e6e723d3c5af6
Homepage: https://www.wireshark.org/
Tag: uitoolkit::qt
Section: net
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/w/wireshark/wireshark-qt_4.0.11-1~deb12u1_amd64.deb
Size: 4209000
MD5sum: f4155132cbb84c67466ddfab56dbcc55
SHA256: ec82749c9ee0db0402d1a761332805cc6c96c7eb8f58690622a018859327accb