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Re: latest wireshark 2.6.2 won't install on my Windows 2008 standard SP2


From: Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018 16:04:42 +0200

Hi André,

Le mar. 31 juil. 2018 à 15:58, Noel, Andre <andre.noel () bell ca> a écrit :

Hello,



I am running a PC  with   Windows 2008 Standard SP2   Wireshark 2.4.4  run
fine  on it.  But when I try to  upgrade to the latest 2.6.2  I do receive
this message:

“ Windows Vista is no longer supported.  Please install Wireshark 2.2
instead.”



I am thinking maybe Wireshark is checking  a registery key that returns a
false information about the OS   because really, it is not Vista.  That
machine  is running

Windows 2008 Standard SP2…



Is there a way to circumvent that ?  Or do someone knows what is that
registery key that is being checked ?


Windows server 2008 is based on the same kernel as Windows Vista. So indeed
Wireshark 2.6.x is not supported on this OS (it looks like we did not
differentiate the error string depending on whether you run a client or
server version).

Best regards,
Pascal.



Regards.



André Noël
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