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Installing Postman on CentOS 7
https://www.getpostman.com/
First part from https://blog.bluematador.com/posts/postman-how-to-install-on-ubuntu-1604/
wget https://dl.pstmn.io/download/latest/linux64 -O postman.tar.gz
sudo tar -xzf postman.tar.gz -C /opt
rm postman.tar.gz
sudo ln -s /opt/Postman/Postman /usr/bin/postman
But when launching postman from command prompt got an error:
[root@localhost Downloads]# postman
postman: error while loading shared libraries: libXss.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Found a solution at: https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=61219
yum install libXScrnSaver-1.2.2-6.1.el7.x86_64
Then launch postman from command prompt and it will bring up the Postman GUI
Killing the open terminal will terminate Postman
You can also create a postman.desktop file to add Postman to the list of Applications in the Gnome desktop
cd /usr/share/applications
create postman.desktop as follows
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Postman
Exec=postman
Icon=/opt/Postman/resources/app/assets/icon.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Development
Once postman has been made available to the Applications Menu on the Gnome Desktop, it can be added to the Applications/Favorites menu
* Select the "Applications/Activities Overview" menu item
* Select the "Show Applications" icon
* Make sure the "All" button is selected then right click the Postman application and from the context menu, select the "Add to Favorites" menu item
* Postman is now available from the "Applications/Favorites" menu item.
@ouzaamedali
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Thank you a lot (Merci)

@roommen
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roommen commented Dec 10, 2019

Thanks a ton!

@HemilTheRebel
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In postman 7.14.0, the icon is at /opt/Postman/app/resources/app/assets/icon.png

@ale13jo
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ale13jo commented Apr 10, 2020

/opt/Postman/app/resources/app/assets/
Thanks, very usefull

@abhipalsingh
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abhipalsingh commented Jun 3, 2020

Thanks! Below worked for me:

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

@shylosa
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shylosa commented Feb 10, 2021

Thanks, very well! It works!

@Vibpositive
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Class

@staraphd
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The following worked for me. Note the value of Exec. Its postman with lowercase "p"

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

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