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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Problem in locating wireshark source files on Ubuntu 16.04

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 10:43:27 -0700
On Oct 22, 2017, at 9:59 AM, Manik Khandelwal <manik123khandelwal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am new to wireshark and i am currently working over building a dissector using plugins. I have read Readme.developer and Readme.Plugin and it is talking about the changes that are to be made in files like CMakefiles.txt, Makefile.am, etc but i was unable to locate these files on my system.

If you've downloaded the Wireshark source, they're in the Wireshark source directory.

If you haven't downloaded the Wireshark source, download it.