Installing Postman on Ubuntu/Gnome

installing-postman.md

Since Chrome apps are now being deprecated. Download postman from https://dl.pstmn.io/download/latest/linux

Although I highly recommend using a snap

sudo snap install postman

Installing Postman

tar -xzf Postman-linux-x64-5.3.2.tar.gz

If any version is installed before, remove it.

sudo rm -rf /opt/Postman

Move Postman

sudo mv Postman /opt/Postman

Create a symbolic link

sudo ln -s /opt/Postman/Postman /usr/bin/postman

Create a desktop file

cat > ~/.local/share/applications/postman.desktop <<EOL
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Postman
Exec=postman
# Before v6.1.2
# Icon=/opt/Postman/resources/app/assets/icon.png
Icon=/opt/Postman/app/resources/app/assets/icon.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Development;
EOL

Remove the tar:

rm Postman-linux-x64-5.3.2.tar.gz

Thanks

Thanks !

Thanks and helpfull for desktop file !

Thanks!

Thanks man !
I just want to add that for the Postman's last version (Version 7.11.0 at the moment of writing this comment), the icon is located at /opt/Postman/app/resources/app/assets/icon.png
and not
/opt/Postman/resources/app/assets/icon.png

Gracias

Thank you

Thanks! Very helpful. Worked like charm. Can't understand why this is not part of official docs.

thank you bro

thanks a lot

It works !!!. Thank you :)

Thanks. Can you remove white space at the end of Icon line in postman.desktop

Thanks

If you still have trouble with icon like I had, please check "space" in the end of Icon=/opt/Postman/app/resources/app/assets/icon.png line and delete it)

If you still have trouble with icon like I had, please check in the end of Icon=/opt/Postman/app/resources/app/assets/icon.png line and delete it)

wow that's a nice observation & thanks for the help

If you still have trouble with icon like I had, please check in the end of Icon=/opt/Postman/app/resources/app/assets/icon.png line and delete it)

wow that's a nice observation & thanks for the help

What exactly is to be done.
My Icon isn't showing too

If you still have trouble with icon like I had, please check in the end of Icon=/opt/Postman/app/resources/app/assets/icon.png line and delete it)

wow that's a nice observation & thanks for the help

What exactly is to be done.
My Icon isn't showing too

just delete space on end of line)

If you still have trouble with icon like I had, please check in the end of Icon=/opt/Postman/app/resources/app/assets/icon.png line and delete it)

wow that's a nice observation & thanks for the help

What exactly is to be done.
My Icon isn't showing too

just delete space on end of line)

I deleted it, yet it didn't come on.
Probably when I restart my PC it would be fine.
But POSTMAN does work

If you still have trouble with icon like I had, please check in the end of Icon=/opt/Postman/app/resources/app/assets/icon.png line and delete it)

wow that's a nice observation & thanks for the help

What exactly is to be done.
My Icon isn't showing too

just delete space on end of line)

I deleted it, yet it didn't come on.
Probably when I restart my PC it would be fine.
But POSTMAN does work

Thanks it worked after restarting the PC

thanks

Thanks ${buddy}

thanks bro

@invinciblycool
invinciblycool
Hey....
Thanks a lot, that is helpful for me?!

@invinciblycool 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

Here's a link to a similar popular gist file, which has been updated accordingly https://gist.github.com/aviskase/e642248c35e400b56e2489430952369f

Postman tries to download new update every time the app is open and due to permission issues it fails and retries.

If you still have trouble with icon like I had, please check in the end of Icon=/opt/Postman/app/resources/app/assets/icon.png line and delete it)

wow that's a nice observation & thanks for the help

What exactly is to be done.
My Icon isn't showing too

just delete space on end of line)

Aha, thanks you very much for this one !! :-D

If you still have trouble with icon like I had, please check "space" in the end of Icon=/opt/Postman/app/resources/app/assets/icon.png line and delete it)

Thanks!
I have updated the gist accordingly

thank you

thanks

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