This happens in wireshark as well as tshark. For testing, to use a text console, I used tshark: $ apt-cache policy tshark tshark: Installed: 1.0.2-1~hardy1 Candidate: 1.0.2-1~hardy1 Version table: *** 1.0.2-1~hardy1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-backports/universe Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1.0.0-1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
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