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Created January 31, 2018 16:01
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Install the Postman Native App in Ubuntu 16.04
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Create Unity desktop file for launcher
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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install postman ubuntu
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
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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

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