Install Postman

install-postman.sh

#!/bin/bash
cd /tmp || exit
echo "Downloading Postman ..."
wget -q https://dl.pstmn.io/download/latest/linux?arch=64 -O postman.tar.gz
tar -xzf postman.tar.gz
rm postman.tar.gz

echo "Installing to opt..."
if [ -d "/opt/Postman" ];then
    sudo rm -rf /opt/Postman
fi
sudo mv Postman /opt/Postman

echo "Creating symbolic link..."
if [ -L "/usr/bin/postman" ];then
    sudo rm -f /usr/bin/postman
fi
sudo ln -s /opt/Postman/Postman /usr/bin/postman

echo "Creating .desktop file..."
if [ -e "/usr/share/applications/Postman.desktop" ];then
    sudo rm /usr/share/applications/Postman.desktop
fi
sudo mv Postman.desktop /usr/share/applications/Postman.desktop

echo "Installation completed successfully."
echo "You can use Postman!"

Postman.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Postman
Exec=postman
Icon=/opt/Postman/resources/app/assets/icon.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Development;

This works :)

Gotta hate apps that don't have a repo or provide a packaged installer. Thanks for this 🥇

Good job! Thanks for this +1

One more suggestion:: in terminal run chmod +x install-postman.sh
modify the script to have actual path to Postman.desktop for example sudo mv ~/Downloads/Postman.desktop /usr/share/applications/Postman.desktop

The Icon path is no longer up-to-date!
I've forked and modified this a tiny bit so it downloads the .desktop file, to be able to just wget the install-postman.sh script and execute. Can check it here https://gist.github.com/sam-sla/56f6bc4ee9e317cf8eb4efca650a4e60

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@pierremonico Can you update your gist to

1. Use some other directory than /opt/, since we have seen people having permission issues in this location. Because there is no write permission, auto-updates does not work when installed in this directory. Here's the link to the issue that people are facing because of this postmanlabs/postman-app-support#5039
2. Include the information that Postman now supports auto-updates, and people should be using that instead of manually updating the app

More details:
The problem with using the command sudo tar -xzf postman.tar.gz -C /opt is that it does not remove the old files, just put the new files over the old. Doing this might make the Postman end up in an inconsistent state leading issues which are very difficult to debug and fix

Also, the gist from where this was forked has been updated accordingly https://gist.github.com/aviskase/e642248c35e400b56e2489430952369f

the path for the icon is now:

/opt/Postman/app/resources/app/assets/icon.png