The installation process

The installation of Wireshark is very simple and easy to follow. Go through the following steps to install it on your system:

1. The recipes and examples in this book will be for use on a Macintosh and Windows PC; for other operating systems, the installation is the same. Some OSes, such as Kali Linux, come with a preinstalled version of Wireshark.
2. Once you have located the correct version of Wireshark for your platform (Wireshark 2.6.1 Intel 64.dmg), install Wireshark by following the wizard.
3. Restart the computer after completion of the installation process to commit the changes that were made.
4. Double-click the Wireshark icon on your desktop to the run the application:

The Wireshark screen