Ubuntu
wireshark package

  1. Bug #513903
  2. Comment #29

Comment 29 for bug 513903

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Seth Arnold (seth-arnold) wrote : Re: [Bug 513903] Re: wireshark must be run as root unless wireshark-common is reconfigured

On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 07:18:45AM -0000, Hadrien wrote:
> For years now, everytime I install Wireshark on a computer running
> Ubuntu I have to chmod +x /usr/bin/dumpcap. Is there no way to fix the
> issue in the installer instead to avoid that manual action?

Hello Hadrien, please file a new bug with instructions on how to reproduce
this issue. I wasn't able to reproduce it on my 18.04 LTS laptop:

$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get purge wireshark && sudo apt-get install wireshark
[...]
$ ls -l /usr/bin/dumpcap
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 100560 Feb 26 01:45 /usr/bin/dumpcap

Thanks