diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/sniffers/wireshark/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/sniffers/wireshark/default.nix
index d8ff5f3100ac..8c745a4aa3f8 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/sniffers/wireshark/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/sniffers/wireshark/default.nix
@@ -82,6 +82,11 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+  shellHook = ''
+    # to be able to run the resulting binary
+    export WIRESHARK_RUN_FROM_BUILD_DIRECTORY=1
+  '';
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     homepage = https://www.wireshark.org/;
     description = "Powerful network protocol analyzer";