How to Install and Uninstall libwireshark6 Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: September 20,2024

1. Install "libwireshark6" package

This tutorial shows how to install libwireshark6 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "libwireshark6" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall libwireshark6 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libwireshark6 package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: libwireshark6
Priority: optional
Section: universe/libs
Installed-Size: 73532
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Balint Reczey
Architecture: amd64
Source: wireshark
Version: 2.0.2+ga16e22e-1
Replaces: wireshark-common (<< 1.4.0~rc2-1)
Depends: libc-ares2 (>= 1.7.0), libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcrypt20 (>= 1.6.1), libgeoip1, libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.28.0), libgnutls30 (>= 3.4.0), libgpg-error0 (>= 1.14), libk5crypto3 (>= 1.6.dfsg.2), libkrb5-3 (>= 1.6.dfsg.2), liblua5.2-0, libsmi2ldbl (>= 0.4.5+dfsg0), libwiretap5 (>= 1.12.0~rc1), libwsutil6 (>= 2.0.2+ga16e22e-1), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), libwireshark-data (>= 2.0.2+ga16e22e-1)
Suggests: wireshark-doc (>= 2.0.2+ga16e22e-1)
Conflicts: wireshark-common (<< 1.4.0~rc2-1)
Filename: pool/universe/w/wireshark/libwireshark6_2.0.2+ga16e22e-1_amd64.deb
Size: 12193162
MD5sum: c43be7917fc4890edfb1f62a84a5d089
SHA1: 063d4b532b1dd25777ab47f44d5e15efb00375ed
SHA256: 0b02a41485064c05596c7331fe826d9ce71ce1a3b46d87b4c66a06620535c7f2
Description-en: network packet dissection library -- shared library
The libwireshark library provides the network packet dissection services
developed by the Wireshark project.
Description-md5: ab8eca3dff7b66974ed95f1142899d51
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: http://www.wireshark.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu