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Save qbantek/6ee4a9df0dab9ac6d623ecb47284427f to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
| 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 |
| 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 |
Please do not use this gist nor the above-linked blog post. 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 /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
https://blog.bluematador.com/posts/postman-how-to-install-on-ubuntu-1604/