wireshark
Install command:
brew install wiresharkNetwork analyzer and capture tool - without graphical user interface
License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Development: Pull requests
Formula JSON API: /api/formula/wireshark.json
Formula code: wireshark.rb on GitHub
Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:
| macOS on Apple Silicon |
golden gate | ✅ |
|---|---|---|
| tahoe | ✅ | |
| sequoia | ✅ | |
| sonoma | ✅ | |
| macOS on Intel |
sonoma | ✅ |
| Linux | ARM64 | ✅ |
| x86_64 | ✅ |
Current versions:
| stable | ✅ | 4.6.8 |
| head | ⚡️ | HEAD |
Depends on:
| c-ares | 1.34.8 | Asynchronous DNS library |
| glib | 2.90.0 | Core application library for C |
| gnutls | 3.8.13 | GNU Transport Layer Security (TLS) Library |
| libgcrypt | 1.12.4 | Cryptographic library based on the code from GnuPG |
| libmaxminddb | 1.14.0 | C library for the MaxMind DB file format |
| libnghttp2 | 1.70.0 | HTTP/2 C Library |
| libnghttp3 | 1.18.0 | HTTP/3 library written in C |
| libsmi | 0.5.0 | Library to Access SMI MIB Information |
| libssh | 0.12.2 | C library SSHv1/SSHv2 client and server protocols |
| lua | 5.5.1 | Powerful, lightweight programming language |
| lz4 | 1.10.0 | Extremely Fast Compression algorithm |
| pcre2 | 10.48 | Perl compatible regular expressions library with a new API |
| speexdsp | 1.2.1 | Speex audio processing library |
| zstd | 1.5.7 | Zstandard is a real-time compression algorithm |
| libgpg-error | 1.61 | Common error values for all GnuPG components |
Depends on when building from source:
| cmake | 4.4.3 | Cross-platform make |
Uses from macOS: bison (build), flex (build), python (build), krb5, libpcap, libxml2
Binaries:
capinfos,
captype,
dftest,
dumpcap,
editcap,
idl2wrs,
mergecap,
mmdbresolve,
randpkt,
rawshark,
reordercap,
sharkd,
text2pcap,
tshark
| This formula only installs the command-line utilities by default. Install Wireshark.app with Homebrew Cask: brew install wireshark-app If your list of available capture interfaces is empty (default macOS behavior), install ChmodBPF: brew install --cask wireshark-chmodbpf |
Analytics:
| 30 days | 90 days | 365 days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Installs | 2,559 | 10,918 | 53,974 |
Installs (--HEAD) | 3 | 23 | 111 |
| Installs on Request | 2,491 | 10,696 | 52,904 |
Installs on Request (--HEAD) | 3 | 23 | 111 |
| Build Errors | 23 |