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Install Postman
#!/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!"
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Postman
Exec=postman
Icon=/opt/Postman/resources/app/assets/icon.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Development;
@harryi3t
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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

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the path for the icon is now:

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

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