Installing Postman on Ubuntu

installing-postman.md

Tested on 18.04. Download postman from https://dl.pstmn.io/download/latest/linux

Installing Postman

tar -xzf Postman-linux-<VERSION>.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
Icon=/opt/Postman/app/resources/app/assets/icon.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Development;
EOL

Remove the tar:

rm Postman-linux-<VERSION>.tar.gz