Portable Wireshark

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This directory contains experimental packaging for running Wireshark under the P
ortable Apps
(http://www.portableapps.com/).
The packaging relies on the same "manifest" as used by the U3 packaging. Therefo
re there is no need to maintain a list of relevant files for the Portable Wiresh
ark. Only the U3 list needs to be updated.
Currently only an additional menu item for Wireshark is added - the other tools
could be added to Portable Apps menu if required.
WinPcap
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If you want to capture packets, then WinPcap needs to be installed. Wireshark Po
rtable will try and install WinPcap if it doesn't find it installed on the local
machine. If it does install it, it will uninstall it when Wireshark Portable qu
its.
A quieter install/de-install for WinPcap would help matters - but ultimately a m
inimal installation mechanism needs to be identified for WinPcap. But that is no
t for the Wireshark forum.
NSIS
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The Portable Apps packaging uses the NullSoft Scriptable Installer System (NSIS)
to create a installation package to install onto the USB drive, and a launcher
to launch Wireshark from the USB drive.
NSIS is used by the standard Win32 installation mechansim (packaging/nsis) but a
n additional plug-in is required for the Wireshark Portable launcher. This is no
w automatically downloaded and installed from the wireshark-win32-libs repositor
y.
INI Settings
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The Wireshark Portable Launcher will look for an ini file called WiresharkPortab
le.ini within its directory. It is only necessary to have a ini file if you wis
h to change the default configuration.
There is an example INI included with this package to get you started. The INI
file is formatted as follows:
[WiresharkPortable]
WiresharkDirectory
WiresharkExecutable
AdditionalParameters
DisableWinPcapInstall
WinPcapInstaller
MSVCRedist
The WiresharkDirectory entry should be set to the *relative* path to the directo
ry containing the Wireshark Portable Launcher (WiresharkPortable.exe). This entr
y must be present.
The WiresharkExecutable entry allows you to set the Wireshark Portable Launcher
to use an alternate EXE call to launch Wireshark.

The AdditionalParameters entry allows you to pass additional commandline paramet

er entries to wireshark.exe.
The DisableWinPcapInstall allows you to disable the installation of WinPcap, eve
n if it it not present on the host system.
The WinPcapInstaller allows you to specify a different WinPcap installer than th
e default one included in the distribution. For example, if you download a later
version.
The MSVCRedist allows you to specify a different redistributable package to be u
sed than the default one included in the distribution.