wireshark
Install command:
brew install wiresharkNetwork analyzer and capture tool - without graphical user interface
License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Formula JSON API: /api/formula/wireshark.json
Formula code: wireshark.rb on GitHub
Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:
| macOS on Apple Silicon |
tahoe | ✅ |
|---|---|---|
| sequoia | ✅ | |
| sonoma | ✅ | |
| macOS on Intel |
sonoma | ✅ |
| Linux | ARM64 | ✅ |
| x86_64 | ✅ | |
Current versions:
| stable | ✅ | 4.6.2 |
| head | ⚡️ | HEAD |
Depends on:
| c-ares | 1.34.6 | Asynchronous DNS library |
| glib | 2.86.3 | Core application library for C |
| gnutls | 3.8.11 | GNU Transport Layer Security (TLS) Library |
| libgcrypt | 1.11.2 | Cryptographic library based on the code from GnuPG |
| libmaxminddb | 1.12.2 | C library for the MaxMind DB file format |
| libnghttp2 | 1.68.0 | HTTP/2 C Library |
| libnghttp3 | 1.13.1 | HTTP/3 library written in C |
| libsmi | 0.5.0 | Library to Access SMI MIB Information |
| libssh | 0.11.3 | C library SSHv1/SSHv2 client and server protocols |
| lua | 5.4.8 | Powerful, lightweight programming language |
| lz4 | 1.10.0 | Extremely Fast Compression algorithm |
| pcre2 | 10.47 | 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 | 1.56 | Common error values for all GnuPG components |
Depends on when building from source:
| cmake | 4.2.0 | Cross-platform make |
| 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:
| Installs (30 days) | |
|---|---|
wireshark |
7,443 |
wireshark --HEAD |
21 |
| Installs on Request (30 days) | |
wireshark |
7,293 |
wireshark --HEAD |
21 |
| Build Errors (30 days) | |
wireshark |
63 |
| Installs (90 days) | |
wireshark |
17,731 |
wireshark --HEAD |
49 |
| Installs on Request (90 days) | |
wireshark |
17,371 |
wireshark --HEAD |
49 |
| Installs (365 days) | |
wireshark |
75,320 |
wireshark --HEAD |
151 |
| Installs on Request (365 days) | |
wireshark |
74,233 |
wireshark --HEAD |
151 |