I can understand that logic, however it looks like it isn't too far behind (2.2.x versus 2.6.x). The PPA points to 2.4.x, (https://launchpad.net/~wireshark-dev/

I can understand that logic, however it looks like it isn't too far behind (2.2.x versus 2.6.x). The PPA points to 2.4.x, (https://launchpad.net/~wireshark-dev/+archive/ubuntu/stable https://launchpad.net/~wireshark-dev/+archive/ubuntu/stable) so even the PPA doesn't have the latest. The official website recommends installing it from the official Debian repository(https://www.wireshark.org/download.html https://www.wireshark.org/download.html). My greater concern with recommending that is PPA's may not be by the official folks, and PPA's tend to be for Ubuntu rather than Debian, resulting in a "FrankenDebian" (https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian), and while that PPA seems to be run by the official devs, PPAs can be set up by anyone, which runs into the whole concern of blindly trusting other's code on your system. EDIT: Here is what the official Debian website says on it: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianSoftware#Footnotes https://wiki.debian.org/DebianSoftware#Footnotes (Footnote 1).