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Installing Postman on Ubuntu/Gnome

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
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lamkr commented Nov 9, 2023

Awesome! Thank you!

@ShreehariKulkarnii
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Thanks

@byhoratiss
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Perfect, thank you!

@dev-eranda
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Really useful

@mttorres68
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Perfect...

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prasea commented May 20, 2024

Mucho gracias

@alex-pythonista
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Arigatou Gozaimasu

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Perfectly work. Thanks mate...

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space11 commented Sep 2, 2024

Thanks

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alkinoy commented Dec 6, 2024

thanks

@jmanriquecha
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Thank you so much

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muginurul24 commented Feb 8, 2025

Exec=/ust/bin/postman

ensure that there is no postman cli or other alias

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attok commented Feb 15, 2025

thanks bro, sometimes, installing from snap is too slow to download. Your gist is help me. Cheers!

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