Wireshark Launcher for Mac OS X

This small applescript program launches the popular network sniffer Wireshark from the Mac desktop, when installed via Fink or MacPorts.

Since V1.0 the wireshark project officially supports Mac OS X, look here for more details.

You need administrator priviledges to run it.

This launcher doesn't include the Wireshark binary. You have to install it via Fink or MacPorts.

Leopard Version

This version runs on MAC OS X V10.5 only, it doesn't run on earlier versions.

Download Wireshark_V1.2.dmg.

Please note, that Leopard (at least up to 10.5.1) has some bugs in it's X server. On my system wireshark crashes after some captured packets with a BadMatch error.

X in Leopard V10.5.2 works much better, but even with this version I got some random crashes.

An updated (unofficial !!!) version of X11 for Mac OS X is available at http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz. For pre-built binaries have a look into http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz/wiki/Releases. You can either install a new X11 package or just an updated version of the X server. Keep in mind that future software updates from Apple might interfere with these unofficial versions.

What I did:
I saved the original Xquartz binary and then installed the updated Xquartz binary. Before any future Leopard update I will restore the original version.

Please use these unoffical versions only, if you are absolutely sure that you can handle any problems yourself. Otherwise I recommend to just wait, until Apple fixes these bugs.

Tiger Version

This version runs on MAC OS X V10.4. I assume, it's running with V10.3 as well, but that's untested.

It doesn't run on MAC OS X V10.5 (Leopard).

Download Wireshark_V1.1.dmg.

Changelog

Version	Date Released	Notes
1.0	26.09.2006	Initial Version
1.1	06.04.2007	Mac OS X version 10.4.9 changes the path to the sudo information.
1.2	25.11.2007	Changed to run on Mac OS X version 10.5 (only).