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Is Wireshark preinstalled on Ubuntu 14.04

Posted on July 17, 2015

After having a look around my filesystem I noticed wireshark is installed. Is Wireshark a standard package in Ubuntu. I don’t recall installing it.



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It appears that the package libwireshark3 was inadvertently left on the current Ubuntu 14.04 image. This is safe to uninstall. We are rebuilding fresh images, and will publish them shortly.

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