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Postman installation for Ubuntu 17.10
#Installing libgconf2-4 library in case it is not installed
sudo apt install libgconf2-4
#Getting latest postman for 64bit operation system
wget https://dl.pstmn.io/download/latest/linux64 -O postman.tar.gz
#Extraction the file in /opt folder
sudo tar -xzf postman.tar.gz -C /opt
#Creating symlink
sudo ln -s /opt/Postman/Postman /usr/bin/postman
#Removing unnecessary postman archive from your home directory
sudo rm -rf postman.tar.gz
#Creating shortcut for easy access pinnable to taskbar
cat > ~/.local/share/applications/postman.desktop <<EOL
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Postman
Exec=postman
Icon=/opt/Postman/resources/app/assets/icon.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Development;
EOL
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