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1.3. Platforms Wireshark runs on

Wireshark currently runs on most UNIX platforms and various Windows platforms. It requires

GTK+, GLib, libpcap and some other libraries in order to run.

As Wireshark is developed in a platform independent way and uses libraries (such as the GTK+

GUI library) which are available for a lot of different platforms, it's thus available on a wide variety

of platforms.

If a binary package is not available for your platform, you should download the source and try to

build it. Please report your experiences to wireshark-dev[AT]wireshark.org.

Binary packages are available for at least the following platforms:

1.3.1. Unix

• Apple Mac OS X

• BeOS

• FreeBSD

• HP-UX

• IBM AIX

• NetBSD

• OpenBSD

• SCO UnixWare/OpenUnix

• SGI Irix

• Sun Solaris/Intel

• Sun Solaris/Sparc

• Tru64 UNIX (formerly Digital UNIX)

1.3.2. Linux

• Debian GNU/Linux

• Gentoo Linux

• IBM S/390 Linux (Red Hat)

• Mandrake Linux

• PLD Linux

• Red Hat Linux

• Rock Linux

• Slackware Linux

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