Mac Homebrew and Wireshark

I've installed Wireshark(.org) using Homebrew.

brew install wireshark

at the end the script says

==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/wireshark/1.2.7 --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-wireshark
==> make
==> make install
==> Caveats
We don't build the X11 enabled GUI by default
==> Summary
/usr/local/Cellar/wireshark/1.2.7: 167 files, 50M, built in 5.4 minutes

I'm not able to find the 'wireshark' GUI.
Any idea of how to build it?

Thanks

$ brew options wireshark

Shows you options for wireshark, which lists --with-qt5. QT is the GUI toolkit that Wireshark uses since 1.10. Thus, install wireshark using the following command:

$ brew install wireshark --with-qt5

Or if you already have wireshark previosly:

$ brew reinstall wireshark --with-qt5

If you do not add this option the commandline tool tshark will be installed.

The new approach is to use brew install wireshark --with-qt.

The --with-x option no longer works.

More details on the switch to QT: https://blog.wireshark.org/2013/10/switching-to-qt/

Well, the system did warn you that it wouldn't install the X11 GUI. So maybe there is an option in the configuration phase that enables it? You'd need a whole extra set of stuff to run X11.

At http://www.wireshark.org/download.html there is a binary downstaller you could use...

There is a Mac .dmg app installer from the http://www.wireshark.org website. You must wait a while for it to start X11. It will seem as though it is not working, but the app is just very slow.