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I recently installed wireshark and before i could even start capturing anything it says "no interface can be used for capturing in this system with the current configuration"

as im new to wireshark, does anyone know how to change the current configuration and what to change them to? sorry for any duplication and for shortness in description but i cant proceed without this configuration being set right

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Update:
The default installation of Wireshark requires root privileges to run packet capturing. This is why I suggested below to run it as a privileged user. As @Warren Hill kindly pointed out this is not the recommended way to use Wireshark.

Please read How do I run WireShark, with root-privileges? and follow @Oli's answer on how to reconfigure Wireshark to be able to run as your own user.

To make the group membership changes effective (as stated in that answer) you'll need to log out or restart the system. If you do not want to do that right now for any reason, temporarily login might help. (You'll have to specify your password twice: once for sudo and once for login).

$ sudo login <your_user_name>
[sudo] password for <your_user_name>:
password:
$ DISPLAY=:0.0 wireshark

Answer left below for reference:

Try to run Wireshark with root privileges:

pkexec wireshark

According to the Wireshark Wiki:

Running Wireshark (or any other network capture/analyzer, for that matter) on Linux needs root privileges. Therefore, you have to have root privileges when starting Wireshark, else you can't capture data. Please note that you don't have to login as root when starting your computer, you can use su(1) or sudo(8) for that purpose.

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