Doing dpkg-reconfigure wireshark-common didn't fix it for me (Wireshark told me Couldn't run /usr/bin/dumpcap in child process: Permission denied). Following the instructions at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2039978&p=12161999#post12161999 did fix it.
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