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Wireshark recommends using tcpdump to capture, so as not to have to grant extra privileges (without which, mark us the error “The capture session could not be initiated on interface ‘wlan0’ (You don’t have permission to capture on that device).”

If we want to use it for capture anyway, we can enable it in the package configuration, add our user to the wireshark group, and finally, start wireshark using are, if we do not want to restart session so that the new group is recognized:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure wireshark-common 
sudo usermod -a -G wireshark $USER
su -c wireshark - $USER