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Install the Postman Native App in Ubuntu 16.04
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| 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 | |
| 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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Please do not use this gist. We have seen users having issues when following similar instructions. There is no write permission in
/opt/directory. Please use the home directory or any other directory where write permission is there.Also, 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 /optis 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 fixA similar gist has been updated accordingly, please see https://gist.github.com/aviskase/e642248c35e400b56e2489430952369f