Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1). Processing triggers for menu (2.1.46ubuntu1). Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1). Selecting previously unselected package wireshark. Unpacking wireshark-common (1.12.4-1ubuntu1~ppa2~t). Selecting previously unselected package wireshark-common. Selecting previously unselected package libwireshark5:amd64. Unpacking libwireshark-data (1.12.4-1ubuntu1~ppa2~t). Selecting previously unselected package libwireshark-data. Selecting previously unselected package libwiretap4:amd64. Selecting previously unselected package libwsutil4:amd64. 175945 files and directories currently installed.) Selecting previously unselected package libc-ares2:amd64. Get: 7 trusty/main wireshark amd64 1.12.4-1ubuntu1~ppa2~t Get: 6 trusty/main wireshark-common amd64 1.12.4-1ubuntu1~ppa2~t Get: 5 trusty/main libwireshark5 amd64 1.12.4-1ubuntu1~ppa2~t

Get: 4 trusty/main libwireshark-data all 1.12.4-1ubuntu1~ppa2~t Get: 3 trusty/main libwiretap4 amd64 1.12.4-1ubuntu1~ppa2~t Get: 2 trusty/main libwsutil4 amd64 1.12.4-1ubuntu1~ppa2~t Libc-ares2Ġ packages upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. The following NEW packages will be installed: I removed the program and tried to reinstall it and received this beautiful error message: Daniel-Thinkpad daniel # sudo aptitude install wireshark

I've tried installing wireshark previously but I did not have root access the first time so I was not receiving any data.

I don't have the root password so I entered sudo super user mode in an attempt to install wireshark on my laptop.

Instaling Wireshark 4.0.7