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No wireless interfaces listed

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I just install wire shark on linux mint. When I start wire shark no wireless interfaces are listed.

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HitMan1
asked 2019-05-21 19:32:31 +0000
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The answer is to NOT run Wireshark as root, but to correctly configure your system. The Wiki page on Capture Privileges has some general info, for Mint specifically, as it's a Debian based distribution, the instructions for Debian should likely suffice.

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answered 2019-06-03 08:01:59 +0000
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There is a package you can install that fixes that , but I just throw all caution to the wind and run sudo wireshark

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answered 2019-06-03 03:34:26 +0000
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