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It looks like installing a later version of wireshark is near impossible on redhat 6. I've searched the web extensively and can't find any questions where someone has said their issue was resolved. Don't care how I do it. Here's what I have tried:

yum install wireshark <-- works but version too old
yum localinstall xxx <-- works only with an rc2 of v10 and gives error
./configure <-- "Need a working C++ compiler to build Wireshark with Qt"

The first method is out as the version is too old and it does not have a ipv6 option we need.

The second method appears to install and actually work but gives me an error about a missing library when I run it. I'm also concerned about installing a release candidate. If I try the non release candidate rpm then it gives me an error about missing libraries when trying to install.

The final method gives me an error about qt but qt 4.6 is installed.

Has anyone actually got this to work? Need v1.10 at least.

EDIT: Qt libs installed:
yum list installed | grep qt
qt.x86_64 1:4.6.2-28.el6_5 @base 
qt-devel.x86_64 1:4.6.2-28.el6_5 @base 
qt-sqlite.x86_64 1:4.6.2-28.el6_5 @base 
qt-x11.x86_64 1:4.6.2-28.el6_5 @base 

EDIT: This is output from ./configure:

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checking whether the C compiler works... yes
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configure: error: Need a working C++ compiler to build Wireshark with Qt

I have done a yum install on gcc, bison, flex, qt4-devel and libstdc++.

I was just able to fix the solution and compile on CentOS. It appears that when I entered yum install gcc.x86_64, it did not include the g++ libraries. Once I added yum install gcc-c++.x86_64, it worked. You show ensure that the gcc-c++ package is installed.

OK, here's the full list of commands I ran to compile tshark. These are fairly specific to CentOS 6.5 and Wireshark 1.12.4. I am using command line only so not sure if this compiles the GUI or not. This was done with a fresh CentOS 6.5 VM with no updates installed so hopefully this should cover the full requirements. Seems so easy now :-)

Click "Source Code" under "Stable Release" here:
https://www.wireshark.org/download.html

ftp the file to your CentOS 6 machine

yum install -y gcc-c++ bison flex gtk2 gtk2-devel libpcap-devel

tar -xvf wireshark-1.12.4.tar.bz2
cd wireshark-1.12.4

./configure --with-gtk2
make
make install

This should show 1.12.4:
tshark -v

For existing systems it might pay to run yum erase wireshark first.

It appears the packages installed can be removed afterwards without causing issues:
yum erase -y gcc-c++ bison flex gtk2 gtk2-devel libpcap-devel

I'm no linux expert so any improvements to this answer are welcome.

I solved this problem by installing gcc-c++
dnf install gcc-c++-x86_64-linux-gnu-6.1.1-2.fc25.x86_64

run this commands.

yum install wireshark wireshark-gnome