User Guide

Building and Installing Wireshark

• Start WinPcap service "NPF" at startup - so users without administrative privileges can capture.

More WinPcap info:

• Wireshark related: http://wiki.wireshark.org/WinPcap

• General WinPcap info: http://www.winpcap.org

2.8.1.4. Command line options

You can simply start the Wireshark installer without any command line parameters, it will show you the

usual interactive installer.

For special cases, there are some command line parameters available:

• /NCRC disables the CRC check

• /S runs the installer or uninstaller silently with default values. Please note: The silent installer won't

install WinPCap!

• /desktopicon installation of the desktop icon, =yes - force installation, =no - don't install, otherwise use

defaults / user settings. This option can be useful for a silent installer.

• /quicklaunchicon installation of the quick launch icon, =yes - force installation, =no - don't install,

otherwise use defaults / user settings.

• /D sets the default installation directory ($INSTDIR), overriding InstallDir and InstallDirRegKey. It

must be the last parameter used in the command line and must not contain any quotes, even if the path

contains spaces.

Example:

wireshark-win32-1.9.0.exe /NCRC /S /desktopicon=yes

/quicklaunchicon=no /D=C:\Program Files\Foo

2.8.2. Manual WinPcap Installation

Note!

As mentioned above, the Wireshark installer takes care of the installation of WinPcap,

so usually you don't have to worry about WinPcap at all!

The following is only necessary if you want to try a different version than the one included in the Wireshark

installer, e.g. because a new WinPcap (beta) version was released.

Additional WinPcap versions (including newer alpha or beta releases) can be downloaded from the

following locations:

• The main WinPcap site: http://www.winpcap.org

• The Wiretapped.net mirror: http://www.mirrors.wiretapped.net/security/packet-capture/winpcap

At the download page you will find a single installer exe called something like "auto-installer", which can

be installed under various Windows systems, including NT4.0/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7/2008.